“- John Hobbes: Why are we here? Us, humans? I mean there's six billion of us, we're like ants, I mean do we care what ants do, from a moral standpoint?
- Jonesy: No. Maybe if you figure it out, you die, you know, from a stroke or a heart attack, you just die, sort of like a promotion.”
Denzel Washington - John Hobbes
John Goodman - Jonesy

“For primitive beings like us, life seems to have only one single purpose: gaining time.”
Morgan Freeman - Professor Norman

“I am leaving the nursing profession. I became a nurse because all my life, ever since I was a little girl, I was filled with the idea of serving a suffering humanity.”

Mary Wickes - Miss Preen

“When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.”
Richard Harris - Marcus Aurelius

“I suppose there's a time when any man, even a man like me, can find something... something bigger than himself for which he is willing to die without question, almost... almost happily.”

Errol Flynn - Jean Picard