57 Movie Quotes about Living Life (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

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

1 Not to change the subject, but, um... Ever chase chickens? -I should say not! -Oh, ho! Then you've never lived.

Barbara Luddy as Miss Lady; Larry Roberts as Tramp in Lady and the Tramp

2 Aw, come on, kid. Start building some memories.

Larry Roberts as Tramp in Lady and the Tramp

3 I'd like to quit thinking of the present like, right now, as some minor, insignificant preamble to somethin' else.

Quote from Dazed and Confused (1993)

4 Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo?

Ian McKellen as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

5 Now we will live forever.

Quote from The Dark Crystal (1982)

6 Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

Mel Gibson as William Wallace in Braveheart (1995)

7 Hey! Someday is today!

Jackie Vernon as Frosty The Snowman in Frosty's Winter Wonderland

8 We live wherever we want. Yep. Home is where your rump rests.

Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa; Nathan Lane as Timon in The Lion King (1994)

9 I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

10 I'm living. That's enough for me.

Quote from Boyz n the Hood