293 Movie Quotes about Survival (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Nov 20, 2025

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 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.

4 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

5 I think you have a talent for survival.

Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000)

6 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

7 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

8 His heart was strong enough to survive the grave.

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

9 Master Yoda... you survived.

Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

10 I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Viggo Mortensen as Master Chief in G.I. Jane

293 Movie Quotes about Survival (+ Sound Clips)

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