292 Movie Quotes about Survival (+ Sound Clips) - page 16

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.

151 It may mean the salvation of a civilization. -Their salvation doesn't interest me! Mine does.

John Hoyt as Sydney Stanton; Larry Keating as Dr. Cole Hendron in When Worlds Collide (1951)

152 You've spent too much time with the stars. You don't know anything about living, the law of the jungle, the human jungle. I do. I've spent my life at it.

John Hoyt as Sydney Stanton in When Worlds Collide (1951)

153 You don't know what your civilized people will do to cling to life. I do, because I know I'd cling if I had to kill to do it. And so will you.

John Hoyt as Sydney Stanton in When Worlds Collide (1951)

154 I told you. It's dog-eat-dog, the law of the jungle.

John Hoyt as Sydney Stanton in When Worlds Collide (1951)

155 What a way to go through life: living out of trash cans, eating leftover leftovers.

Mel Blanc as Sylvester The Cat in Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement

156 To fight, you've got to kill. I don't know any other way.

Sterling Hayden as Johnny Guitar Logan in Johnny Guitar (1954)

157 I never shake hands with a left-handed draw. -Smart fella. -That's how I keep alive.

Sterling Hayden as Johnny Guitar Logan in Johnny Guitar (1954)

158 We've both done a lot of living. Our problem now is how to do a little more.

Joan Crawford as Vienna in Johnny Guitar (1954)

159 What about the men she pushed over the cliff? -They're dead. Let's get the living home.

Minnie Driver as Lady Eboshi in Princess Mononoke

160 Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed, but still, you find reasons to keep living.

Billy Crudup as Ashitaka in Princess Mononoke

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