299 Movie Quotes about Survival (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 2, 2026

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

1 We're going to face extreme peril. Private probably won't survive.

Tom McGrath as Skipper The Penguin in Madagascar

2 I don't want to survive. I want to live!

Jeff Garlin as Captain B. McCrea in WALL-E (2008)

3 We're going into attic mode, folks. Keep your accessories with you at all times. Spare parts, batteries, anything you need for an orderly transition. -Orderly? Don't you get it? We're done! Finished! Over the hill!

Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head; Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 3

4 If you want to go out there and freeze to death you be my guest... because you're on your own.

John Goodman as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan in Monsters, Inc.

5 Like quitting. That's what I'm doing. Sure it's the coward's way out. But this coward's gonna survive.

Bill Hader as Fear in Inside Out

6 I think you have a talent for survival.

Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000)

7 I didn't just survive a wreck. I wasn't just blown up yesterday. I have been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted and burned.

Bill Murray as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day

8 You said it yourself, you're a family of one. Always will be. It's how guys like you and me survive.

Nick Nolte as Vincent in Over the Hedge

9 Man the lifeboats! Women and children first! Ah-ooga! Ah-ooga! Dive! Dive!

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

10 His heart was strong enough to survive the grave.

Anthony Hopkins as Abraham Van Helsing in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

299 Movie Quotes about Survival (+ Sound Clips)

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