DR. IAN MALCOLM, Jurassic Park (1993)
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
ANDY DUFRESNE, The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
You cannot live your life to please others.
WHITE QUEEN, Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Everything that has a beginning, has an end.
THE ORACLE, The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
What we do in life echoes in eternity.
MAXIMUS, Gladiator (2000)
We're not hurtling down a pre-determined path towards a foregone conclusion. We people, all of us, we make thousands of decisions a day, little ones, tiny ones... You take all those choices times all the people in the world...and you have to conclude the future's not set. It can't be. And that's the best part about being alive: it's always new, it's always surprising!
JOE DUBOIS, Medium, "Allison Rolen Got Married" (2010)
A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt even! But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me a V. Give me an E. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
MAUDE, Harold & Maude (1971)
Life is just "blah, blah, blah." You hope for "blah" and sometimes you find it, but mostly it's "blah." And waiting for "blah" and hoping you were right about the "blahs" you made. And then, just when you think you have the whole "blah" damn thing figured out and you're surrounded by the ones you "blah", death shows up and "blah, blah, blah."
ANDY BOTWIN, Weeds, "The Whole Blah Damn Thing" (2008)
Life is as brief as a butterfly's fart, but death is something that you have forever.
MARKOV, The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)
Every day above ground is a good day.
MEL BERNSTEIN, Scarface (1983)
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