230 Movie Quotes about Life (Sound Clips) - page 16

Updated: Aug 8, 2025

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

151 I know it is too simple to think of life as either beautiful or ugly. But there was a time when life seemed very ugly to me.

Sophia Loren as Lucilla in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

152 You have such a gift for life, Lucilla. But I think you ask too much of it.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

153 Life is just like tyin' your shoes. 'Cause I've been over, around, under and through, life is just like tyin' your shoes.

Phil Harris as Patou in Rock-a-Doodle

154 The life, she's sweet. Lots of flies to eat. -Yum-yum.

Quote from Thumbelina (1994)

155 You should look upon this tragedy as an episode in the wonderful spectacle of life.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

156 Life should be bright. It should be beautiful and bubbling, like pink champagne.

Charles Boyer as Michel Marnet in Love Affair (1939)

157 There's no winning. It's like life. You don't win at life.

Quote from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

158 Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. (2)

Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

159 My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump (1994)

160 No, sir, not me, I guarantee it. I want much more than this provincial life.

Belle in Beauty and the Beast (1991)