Life Quotes
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Every person on earth is alive...or was once. That's a lot of living to talk about. Click on any life quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
"'Cause you know I love the players, and you love the game."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"Am I original? Am I the only one? Am I sexual?"Source: "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Author: Stephen Chbosky
"Any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me. Probably in the last half hour."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath
"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."Source: Gone with the Wind | Author: Margaret Mitchell
"Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly."Source: And the Mountains Echoed | Author: Khaled Hosseini
"Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are."Source: The Alchemist | Author: Paulo Coelho
"But that's life. One minute you're on top of the world. The next minute, some secretary is running you over with a lawnmower."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Joan Holloway
"But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out."Source: Casey at the Bat | Author: Ernest Lawrence Thayer
"But you just gotta understand that that’s the way it is and keep on steppin'."Source: The Watsons Go to Birmingham | Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
"By all means, attribute my legitimate feelings of sadness to menses."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Piper Chapman
"Cause I can't make you love me if you don't."Source: I Can't Make You Love Me | Speaker: Bonnie Raitt
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents"Source: Little Women | Author: Louisa May Alcott
"Darlin' it's better, down where it's wetter, take it from me!"Source: Under the Sea | Speaker: Sebastian the Crab
"Fasten your seatbelts; it's going to be a bumpy night."Source: All About Eve | Speaker: Margo Channing
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."Source: National Lampoon's Animal House | Speaker: Dean Vernon Wormer
"For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."Source: The Plague | Author: Albert Camus
"Get busy living or get busy dying."Source: The Shawshank Redemption | Speaker: Andy Dufresne and "Red" Redding
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."Source: Unknown | Speaker: Dalai Lama
"He tells you when you've got on too much lipstick"Source: The Perfect Husband | Author: Ogden Nash
"Here comes the sun. And I say, it's all right."Source: "Here Comes the Sun" | Author: George Harrison
"Hi, my name is George. I'm unemployed, and I live with my parents."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: George Costanza
"I can't help falling in love with you."Source: Can't Help Falling in Love | Speaker: Elvis Presley
"I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems."Source: True Blood | Speaker: Pam Swynford de Beaufort
"I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary."Source: American Beauty | Speaker: Angela Hayes
"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys "R" Us kid."Source: Toys "R" Us Commercial | Author: James Patterson
"I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light."Source: Annie Hall | Speaker: Alvy Singer
"I had a great evening; it was like the Nuremberg Trials."Source: Hannah and Her Sisters | Speaker: Mickey
"I have been starved out, felt up, teased, stalked, threatened, and called Taylor Swift."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Piper Chapman
"I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath
"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."Source: Moby-Dick | Author: Herman Melville
"I love that woman. I love her more than sharks love blood."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul | Author: Douglas Adams
"I might love the people upstairs more If only they lived on another floor."Source: The People Upstairs | Author: Ogden Nash
"I said a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie, to the hip hip-hop."Source: Rapper's Delight | Speaker: The Sugarhill Gang
"I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine
"I think to myself: what a wonderful world."Source: What a Wonderful World | Speaker: Louis Armstrong
"I was thrown out of NYU my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final […] I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me."Source: Annie Hall | Speaker: Alvy Singer
"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light."Source: Question and Answer Session | Speaker: Helen Keller
"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
"I'll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash you got."Source: Raising Arizona | Speaker: H.I. McDunnough
"I'm an adult, and I'm responsible. Let's go get some candy."Source: Broad City | Speaker: Abbi Jacobson
"I'm in a glass case of emotion!"Source: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | Speaker: Ron Burgundy
"I'm no hero. I put my bra on one boob at a time like everyone else."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
"I've got a blank space, baby, and I'll write your name."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give"Source: I Will Survive | Speaker: Gloria Gaynor
"If the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death."Source: The Hotel New Hampshire | Author: John Irving
"If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Don Draper
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."Source: Rabbit, Run | Author: John Updike
"If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it."Source: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) | Speaker: Beyoncé
"If you need me, I'll be down here on the floor. Dying."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
"Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine
"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."Source: Quoted in Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets (1971) | Speaker: Coco Chanel
"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."Source: The Third Man | Speaker: Harry Lime
"In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight."Source: The Lion Sleeps Tonight | Speaker: The Tokens
"Islands in the stream, that is what we are."Source: Islands in the Stream | Speaker: Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Author: J. K. Rowling
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation | Speaker: Jean-Luc Picard
"It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily."Source: Shanghai Express | Speaker: Shanghai Lily
"It's a dog eat dog world, Sammy, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear."Source: Cheers | Speaker: Norm Peterson
"It's amazing. You look like a normal person, but actually you are the angel of death."Source: When Harry Met Sally | Speaker: Sally Albright
"It's better to look at the sky than live there."Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's | Author: Truman Capote
"It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal, and the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down."Source: Scandal | Speaker: Olivia Pope
"It's not the men in your life that counts. It's the life in your men."Source: I'm No Angel | Speaker: Tira
"It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage."Source: Raiders of the Lost Ark | Speaker: Indiana Jones
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."Source: Unknown | Speaker: Ella Fitzgerald
"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"Source: Auntie Mame | Speaker: Mame Dennis
"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."Source: Forrest Gump | Speaker: Forrest Gump
"Life is pain. Anybody that says different is selling something."Source: The Princess Bride | Author: William Goldman
"My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone."Source: The Boys of Summer | Speaker: Don Henley
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"Source: Monty Python's Flying Circus | Speaker: Cardinal Ximénez
"Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything."Source: A Wrinkle in Time | Author: Madeleine L'Engle
"Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople."Source: Istanbul (Not Constantinople) | Speaker: They Might Be Giants
"O my Luve's like a Red, Red Rose That's newly sprung in June"Source: A Red, Red Rose | Author: Robert Burns
"Of course he has a knife. He always has a knife."Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Eleanor of Aquitaine
"Oh, it's okay. I guess I wasn't meant to have a good life."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."Source: Brave New World | Author: Aldous Huxley
"Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young."Source: Mildred Pierce | Speaker: Ida Corwin
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"Source: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night | Author: Dylan Thomas
"so much depends upon a red wheel barrow"Source: The Red Wheelbarrow | Author: William Carlos Williams
"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it."Source: American Beauty | Speaker: Ricky Fitts
"Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation."Source: My Life with Martin Luther King Jr. | Author: Coretta Scott King
"Tell me what you don't like about yourself."Source: Nip/Tuck | Speaker: Sean McNamara and Christian Troy
"That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be undid, Homeskillet."Source: Juno | Speaker: Rollo
"That man lives badly who does not know how to die well."Source: On Tranquility of Mind | Author: Seneca
"The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades"Source: The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades | Speaker: Timbuk 3
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."Source: The Usual Suspects | Speaker: Roger "Verbal" Kint
"The hardest thing in this world is to live in it."Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Speaker: Buffy Summers
"The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."Source: Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil | Author: Thomas Hobbes
"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."Source: Dune | Author: Frank Herbert
"The officer nodded, as if a question had been answered."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way"Source: On Liberty | Author: John Stuart Mill
"The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man."Source: Son of a Preacher Man | Speaker: Dusty Springfield
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."Source: On the Road | Author: Jack Kerouac
"The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake."Source: The Little Mermaid | Speaker: Sebastian
"The way up and the way down are one and the same."Source: Refutations by Hippolytus | Author: Heraclitus
"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls."Source: The Sound of Silence | Speaker: Simon and Garfunkel
"The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun."Source: "House of the Rising Sun" | Speaker: Unknown
"There is no such thing [as society]!"Source: Interview with Woman's Own magazine in 1987 | Speaker: Margaret Thatcher
"there's a bluebird in my heart that/ wants to get out/ but I'm too tough for him"Source: Bluebird | Author: Charles Bukowski
"There's always hope tomorrow will be taco night."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Nicky Nichols
"Up your nose with a rubber hose!"Source: Welcome Back, Kotter | Speaker: Vincent "Vinnie" Barbarino
"We accept the love we think we deserve."Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Author: Stephen Chbosky
"We are never ever ever getting back together."Source: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful what we pretend to be."Source: Mother Night | Author: Kurt Vonnegut
"We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"We live in the best of all possible worlds."Source: Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil | Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
"Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it."Source: Harvey | Speaker: Elwood P. Dowd
"What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more than a person."Source: Paper Towns | Author: John Green
"What family doesn't have its ups and downs?"Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Katharine Hepburn
"What you call love was invented by guys like me...to sell Nylons."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Don Draper
"What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?"Source: "Peace, Love, and Understanding" | Speaker: Elvis Costello
"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."Source: When Harry Met Sally | Speaker: Harry Burns
"When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall."Source: Roxanne | Speaker: C.D. Bales
"Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods?"Source: "Holding Out for a Hero" | Speaker: Bonnie Tyler
"With my brains and your looks, we could go places."Source: The Postman Always Rings Twice | Speaker: Frank Chambers
"You better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone, 'cause the times they are a-changing."Source: The Times They Are a-Changin' | Speaker: Bob Dylan
"You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes."Source: Blue Suede Shoes | Author: Carl Perkins
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."Source: No Country for Old Men | Author: Cormac McCarthy
"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
"You want to be taken seriously? Stop dressing like a little girl."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Joan Holloway
"You're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom."Source: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Speaker: Judge May