A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what? So you can swim and dance and play!

— H. George Wells (Rod Taylor)

14 seconds sound clip from the The Time Machine (1960) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:00:15 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Books? Yes, we have books.

- Oh, wonderful! I can learn all I want about you from books. Books will tell me what I want to know.

- Could I see the books?

- Yes, they do tell me all about you.

- What have you done? Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating so you can let it crumble to dust!

- A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what? So you can swim and dance and play!

- You! All of you! I'm going back to my own time! I won't even bother to tell of the useless struggle, the hopeless future. But at least I could die among men!

- What are you doing?

- I heard you pounding. I came to warn you.

- How do you open that panel?

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