285 Movie Quotes about Survival (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 20, 2025

Memorable quotes about survival, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources 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.

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 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

4 I think you have a talent for survival.

Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000)

5 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

6 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

7 His heart was strong enough to survive the grave.

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

8 Master Yoda... you survived.

Quote from Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

9 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

10 How many times must I say it? Playing possum is what we do. We die so that we live!

William Shatner as Ozzie in Over the Hedge