Life quotes

“Ever since nursery school, every single waking moment of every single day has been scheduled. So what do I want to do? Nothing.”
Maria Thayer - Rory Thayer

“After all is said and done, the only thing you can be really sure of, the only thing you can really count on in this world, is that you just never fucking know.”
Ben Affleck - Larry Gigli

“I think my life is, like, flashing in front of my eyes. My life was cool.”

Mike Judge - Butt-Head

“- Harold Crick: You have to understand that this isn't a philosophy or a literary theory or a story to me. It's my life.
- Professor Jules Hilbert: Absolutely. So just go make it the one you've always wanted.”
Will Ferrell - Harold Crick
Dustin Hoffman - Professor Jules Hilbert

“The world ain't fair. You've gotta take what you need when you can get it. You've gotta learn to stand up for yourself.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Willie

“I used to talk about killing myself all the time, man. But I don't wanna die now. It ain't long enough. Sixteen years ain't gonna be long enough. Hell, I wouldn't care so much if there hadn't been so many things I haven't done yet. So many damn things I ain't seen or done.”
Ralph Macchio - Johnny Cade

“The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.”

Sir Charlie Chaplin - Hynkel - Dictator of Tomania

“I was raised a strict Southern Baptist. I place a high value on human life... $20,000 minimum.”
Jerry Reed - Jack Locke

“- Clyde Martin: You've just told me your entire history: childhood, family, career, every person you've ever had sex with. But there hasn't been a single mention of love.
- Alfred Kinsey: That's because it's impossible to measure love. And, as you know, without measurements there can be no science.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Clyde Martin
Liam Neeson - Alfred Kinsey

“Life is precious, especially if you're a Christian and only allowed to have one.”

Jodie Foster - Anna

“Nothing ever changes, man. Fifty years from now we're all gonna be dead. And there will be another group of people standing here drinking beer, eating pizza, bitching about the price of Oreos and they'll have no idea we were ever here and fifty years after those suckers will be dust and bones and there'll be all these generations of suckers, all...” (continue)(continue reading)

Giovanni Ribisi - Jeff

“Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings.”
Frances O'Connor - Fanny Price

“Today we will be as brave as you, by not mourning you, but by celebrating your life. So I'd like everyone to stand up and celebrate the life of Jack Morrison.”

John Travolta - Captain Mike Kennedy

“Sometimes I think... I compare my life to yours. You travel, you go to Italy, you do what you like. You are loved. While I... no ecstasy, no glamour, all the things you have.”

Phoebe Foster - Dolly

“Happy wife, happy life!”
Rob Corddry - Mac

“We all need something to distract us from the complexity of reality. No one wants to think about where that came from, no one wants to think about the struggle that it takes to become somebody, to get out of the sea of pain that we all have to get out of.”
Adrien Brody - Henry Barthes

“All morning I'd been thinking about what it would have been like if my life had turned out differently.”
Jim Belushi - Larry Burrows

“- Judge Francis Rayford: I found out what the meaning of life is.
- Arthur Kirkland: What's that?
- Judge Francis Rayford: It sucks.”
Jack Warden - Judge Francis Rayford
Al Pacino - Arthur Kirkland

“You know what, life is life, and it's messy, and it's complicated, and you know what it takes guts!”
Jeff Daniels - Dr. Alex Tremor

“- Lloyd Fellowes: Think of the first night as the dress rehearsal. If we can just get through the play once tonight - for doors and sardines. That's what it's all about, doors and sardines. Getting on, getting off. Getting the sardines on, getting the sardines off. That's farce. That's - that's the theatre. That's life.
- Belinda Blair: God,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Michael Caine - Lloyd Fellowes
Marilu Henner - Belinda Blair

“- Idi Amin: But a man that shows fear... he is weak, and he is a slave.
- Nicholas Garrigan: Well... if you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping.”
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin
James McAvoy - Nicholas Garrigan

“Despite everything he's suffered he can still look at life in the most uncomplicated way. I've never known that kind of faith. It makes me so sad that people who have lost everything can still be open to love, while I, who have lost nothing, am not.”

Alexis Bledel - Lena

“- Michael: You okay?
- Linda: Did you ever think life would turn out like this?
- Michael: No.”
Robert De Niro - Michael
Meryl Streep - Linda

“Every day above ground is a good day.”
Harris Yulin - Mel Bernstein

- David Langley: Kevin, you know how sometimes you ask me questions that I can't answer.
- Kevin Langley: Yeah, like "What is an intrauterine device?".
- David Langley: I think more like "What's the meaning of life?".
- Kevin Langley: I never asked you that.
Peter MacNicol - David Langley
Andrew Lawrence - Kevin Langley