Some chose to take refuge in the great caverns and find a new way of life far below the earth's surface.
10 seconds sound clip from the The Time Machine (1960) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:12:42 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- The last surviving factory for the manufacture of oxygen has been destroyed.
- Stockpiles are rapidly diminishing and when they are gone, we must die.
- My name is of no consequence.
- The rest of us decided to take our chances in the sunlight... small as those chances might be.
- By some awful quirk of fate...
- The Morlocks had become the masters and the Eloi their servants.
[...]