Living quotes

“Do you think you're the first person to lose someone? That's what life is all about, loss! But we don't use it as an excuse to destroy ourselves. We go on, all of us.”
Gene Hackman - Nicholas Earp

“I don't want to live in the past, Khan. I just don't want to lose it.”
Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“I wanted to do something outrageous, and it felt really good, to be needed, and to be trusted. It's just there's so much I want to do with this life and it feels that I haven't done any of it. You know, the sand is running out of the hourglass, and I want to look back and say, see, I did that, that was me, I was wreckless and I was wild, and I...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jamie Lee Curtis - Helen Tasker

“- Stansfield: It's always the same thing. It's when you start to become really afraid of death that you learn to appreciate life. Do you like life, sweetheart?
- Mathilda: Yes.
- Stansfield: That's good, because I take no pleasure in taking life if it's from a person who doesn't care about it.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Stansfield
Natalie Portman - Mathilda

“Every man dies, not every man really lives.”
Mel Gibson - William Wallace

“- Daniel: Live or die, man?
- Chozen: Die.
- Daniel: Wrong.”
Ralph Macchio - Daniel
Yuji Okumoto - Chozen

“Always being afraid. Never knowing from one day to the next what's going to happen to you. I'm fed up with being afraid of Vanning or anybody else. There must be some other way for me to live.”

Bette Davis - Mary Dwight Strauber

“All right, kid, here's the deal. At any given time there are approximately 1500 aliens on the planet, most of them right here in Manhattan. And most of them are decent enough, they're just trying to make a living.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“- Maddy Wirtz: Where do you live?
- Legs Sadovsky: Mostly in my head.”
Hedy Burress - Maddy Wirtz
Angelina Jolie - Legs Sadovsky

“We may never find happiness. But we have the right to live.”
Sylvia Sidney - Joan Graham

“I guess it comes down a simple choice: get busy living, or get busy dying.”
Tim Robbins - Andy Dufresne

“Don't run away from things just because they scare you. If you do, you'll always be afraid. It's a bad way to live.”
Don Johnson - Ben Reed

“You have given me the strength to live.”

Meryl Streep - Sarah