304 Movie Quotes about Survival (+ Sound Clips) - page 23

Updated: Mar 15, 2026

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.

221 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

222 Harry wouldn't have let them do it. He had a sense of dignity. I have a sense of survival.

Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther; Jennifer Jones as Mrs. Gwendolen Chelm in Beat the Devil (1953)

223 Did you know that no land animal with a body weight of over 50 pounds survived that age?

Matthew Broderick as David Lightman in WarGames (1983)

224 Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive.

Keanu Reeves as Thomas A. Anderson in The Matrix

225 Survival kit contents check. In them you will find one .45 caliber automatic, two boxes ammunition...

Slim Pickens as Major T. J. "King" Kong in Dr. Strangelove

226 By some miracle, I made it home alive, not a scratch on me or the car.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street

227 I'm into survival.

Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street

228 Make fire by friction. Eat out of cans.

John Wayne as Dan Roman in The High and the Mighty (1954)

229 In such a situation, you have no time to think - instinct takes over. It's either kill or be killed.

Dan Aykroyd as Louis Winthorpe in Trading places (1983)

230 Now the question is survival. Is this the end of technological man?

Charlton Heston as Robert Neville in The Omega Man (1971)