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

Updated: Nov 11, 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.

131 You need to know what it feels like to drown in order to avoid panic and perhaps gain those few seconds that just might save your life.

Viggo Mortensen as Master Chief in G.I. Jane

132 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

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

Arthur Hunnicutt as Bull Harris; Robert Mitchum as Sheriff J.P. Harrah in El Dorado (1966)

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

Vincent Price as Jean in Three Skeleton Key (Escape)

135 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

136 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

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

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

138 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

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

Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name in For a Few Dollars More

140 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

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

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