71 Movie Quotes about Life Moving Fast (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 23, 2025

Memorable quotes about life moving fast, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Take it from an old spectator. Life's not a spectator sport. If watchin' is all you're gonna do, then you're gonna watch your life go by without ya.

Mary Wickes as Laverne The Gargoyle in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

2 Old life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left, but all the time in the world to think about it.

Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd Red Redding in The Shawshank Redemption

3 Hush. Listen. The passing of time, the beating of a heart, the footstep of an assassin. Destiny.

Vincent Price as Prince Prospero in The Masque of the Red Death

4 The years roll by. But 100 years to a steadfast heart are but a day.

Princess Aurora as Mary Costa in Sleeping Beauty (1959)

5 Time's wiped out everything you ever knew. It's all dust.

Charlton Heston as George Taylor in Planet of the Apes (1968)

6 Roger, I know all this seems pretty painful now, but you'll find someone new.

Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

7 'The years shall run like rabbits.'

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

8 In headaches and in worry, vaguely life leaks away, and time will have his fancy tomorrow or today.

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

9 Don't look back, baby. Don't ever look back. You know what happened to Lot's wife, don't you?

Van Heflin as Sam Masterson in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

10 My, my, today simply flew by.

Rabbit From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

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