242 Movie Quotes about Life (+ Sound Clips) - page 17

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.

161 Life is a pain in the _. I'll tell you. You know, you work hard, try to provide for the family, and then for one minute, everything's good. Everyone's well, everyone's happy. In that one minute, you have peace.

Peter Boyle as Ox Callaghan in While You Were Sleeping (1995)

162 Thank goodness my father was right. Life doesn't always turn out the way you plan.

Sandra Bullock as Lucy Eleanor Moderatz in While You Were Sleeping (1995)

163 All of me life flashed before me eyes! It was really borin'.

Babs From Chicken Run in Chicken Run

164 Case, compared to the life I lead, the last man in a chain gang thoroughly enjoys himself.

Katharine Hepburn as Linda Seton in Holiday (1938)

165 It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet.

Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen in Network (1976)

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

Dee Wallace as Mary in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

167 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

168 There's no normal life, Wyatt. There's just life. Now get on with it.

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone (1993)

169 I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Billy Crystal as Harry Burns in When Harry Met Sally...

170 Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity.

Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000)