285 Movie Quotes about Survival (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

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.

31 The history of every major galactic civilization passes through three distinct and recognizable phases: survival, inquiry and sophistication.

Peter Jones as The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy Book in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

32 If you're smart, you can be a hero. If you're dumb, you can be dead.

Ted De Corsia as Joseph Rico in The Enforcer (1951)

33 Are we any the less victims of the war than those whose bodies were torn asunder? Are we not both the living dead?

Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)

34 Oh, no. Where can we go? What can we do? How can we hide? Terrifying, isn't it?

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

35 Man the lifeboats! Women and children first! Ah-ooga! Ah-ooga! Dive! Dive!

Quote from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

36 The wind's worse than before. It's no use. The only safe place is under my chair.

John Fiedler as Piglet in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

37 Any last requests? -Just one. Do you know how to untie us?

Peter Cullen as Eeyore in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

38 All birds should remember, the possum said, when there's no escape, you have to play dead.

Quote from The Swan Princess

39 Look, son. Being a good shot, being quick with a pistol, that don't do no harm, but it don't mean much next to being cool-headed. A man who will keep his head and not get rattled under fire like as not, he'll kill you.

Gene Hackman as Little Bill Daggett in Unforgiven

40 What's the matter with you? All you think about is Gimme, gimme, gimme. Get, get, get. -That's called survival, baby.

Quote from It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown