242 Movie Quotes about Life (+ Sound Clips) - page 13

Updated: Mar 15, 2026

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

121 Life was simple, quiet, richly pleasurable, and then the darkness began to fall.

Vincent Price as Nicholas Medina, Sebastian Medina in The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

122 Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

Vincent Price as Waldo Trumbull in The Comedy of Terrors

123 It's just that there's so much I wanted to do with this life, and it's like I haven't done any of it.

Jamie Lee Curtis as Helen Tasker in True Lies

124 Is there any life yet? -No. Not life itself yet. This is only the simulacrum of life.

Ernest Thesiger as Dr. Pretorius; Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein in Bride of Frankenstein

125 Wise up, you guys. Life isn't this easy.

Burt Ward as Robin in Batman (1966)

126 This life, at best, is one long impractical joke.

Cesar Romero as The Joker in Batman (1966)

127 Life mocks me even in death.

David Naughton as David Kessler in An American Werewolf in London

128 Cheer up. Food isn't everything in life, you know.

Edward Woodward as Sgt. Neil Howie in The Wicker Man (1973)

129 Life is not merely a matter of breathing and a beating heart.

Vincent Price as Dr. Warren Chapin in The Tingler (1959)

130 If his life be short, as is the prophecy, give him in that short span of life that which is the prophecy also: Eternal glory to the end of time.

Richard Burton as Alexander The Great in Alexander the Great (1956)