285 Movie Quotes about Survival (+ Sound Clips) - page 14

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.

131 If all you do is knock their teeth out and you don't kill them, the wolves are bound to regroup and attack again soon as they recover.

Quote from The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter

132 You suppose you could slip out that back door and bring us some food? -Without getting shot? -I wish you would.

Quote from El Dorado (1966)

133 Ship's rats don't drown. No, sir. You cannot drown one of them. They're all climbing up the tower.

Quote from Three Skeleton Key (Escape)

134 I don't care. I'm gonna be tough. -Sure, you live in the jungle, you gotta be tough. But running away, that ain't tough, kid.

Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune in Rocky Fortune

135 Oh, I'd say the odds against a successful escape are about 100-to-1. -Right. But may I add another word, colonel? -Please. -The odds against survival in this camp are even worse.

William Holden as Commander Shears in The Bridge on the River Kwai

136 You have survived with honor. That, and more.

Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai

137 Here in the wilderness you have turned defeat into victory. I congratulate you.

Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai

138 How long do you expect to last? -Much longer than that.

Quote from For a Few Dollars More

139 Is it reasonable for anything to stay alive, after hitting Earth that hard? - It's reasonable, because it's true.

Charles Drake as Sheriff Matt Warren in It Came from Outer Space

140 And go where? -Away from here. I could hunt deer, rabbit. I could feed us.

Orlando Bloom as Paris Of Troy in Troy