285 Movie Quotes about Survival (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 But you know the best thing about pain? -I don't know! -It lets you know you're not dead yet!

Viggo Mortensen as Master Chief in G.I. Jane

22 Now, we're not gonna do it, doggone it. It's degrading. It's undignified. -Well, so is an empty stomach.

Quote from The Philadelphia Story (1940)

23 So why California? -You don't freeze while you're starving... It has the movies.

Jane Fonda as Gloria Beatty in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

24 If I wanna stay alive, no one will ever kill me.

Quote from Game of Killers (1978)

25 Congratulations. You're the first to survive the audition.

Tina Turner as Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

26 Boy, I've reached almost 50 years of age with my system. Not many men last long in these parts.

Lee Van Cleef as Colonel Douglas Mortimer in For a Few Dollars More

27 Those flying fish, they are not leaping for joy. They're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them.

Tom Conway as Paul Holland in I Walked with a Zombie

28 I'm not going to die! -You mean, never? -I don't mean never!

Quote from The Honeymooners (1955)

29 There are no pacts between lions and men.

Brad Pitt as Achilles in Troy

30 Listen. It's a tough universe. There's all sorts of people and things trying to do you, kill you, rip you off, everything. If you're going to survive out there, you've really gotta know where your towel is.

Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy