Movies

There are so many great quotes from movies that we often miss. The scene changes, the plot continues on and we don’t get a chance to reread a good quote like when reading a book. Well, we’ve summoned our top quotes from a wide genre of movies and hopefully found a few quotes that you might’ve missed. Enjoy and if you’re looking for some deep-thinking movies to watch be sure to check out our DTD Movie List.

“What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.”

-The Matrix-

“It’s the sense of touch. In any real city you…you walk. You know? You brush past people. People bump into you. In L.A. nobody touches you. We’re always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so we can feel something.”

-Crash-

“Hope is a good thing, may be the best of the things. And good thing never dies.”

-Shawshank Redemption-

“I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they’re gone. I guess I just miss my friend.”

-Shawshank Redemption-

“At some point, everything’s gonna go south on you and you’re going to say, this is it. This is how I end. Now you can either accept that, or you can get to work. That’s all it is.”

-The Martian-

“Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and. necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

-Dead Poets Society-

“Steiner: Don’t be like me. Salvation doesn’t lie within four walls. I’m too serious to be a dilettante and too much a dabbler to be a professional. Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.”

-La Dolce Vita-

“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.”

-Interstellar-

“I figure life’s a gift, and don’t intend on wasting it. You never know what hand you’re gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you, to make each day count.”

-Titanic-

“We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time . . . detached.”

-La Dolce Vita-

“I wonder if everyone is caged in. You in your cage, I in mine. Each in his own little cage. Everybody.”

-Through A Glass Darkly-

“We don’t have a lot of time on this earth! We weren’t meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements.”

-Office Space-

“Old Rose: I saw my whole life as if I had already lived it. An endless parade of parties and cotillions, yachts and polo matches. Always the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter. I felt like I was standing at a great precipice, with no one to pull me back, no one who cared . . . or even noticed.”

-Titanic-

“Yeah, that’s what the present is. It’s a little unsatisfying because life’s a little unsatisfying.”

-Midnight In Paris-

Teddy Daniels: You know, this place makes me wonder.
Chuck Aule: Yeah, what’s that, boss?
Teddy Daniels: Which would be worse: to live as a monster or to die as a good man?

-Shutter Island-

Tyler Durden: We’re consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don’t concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy’s name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.
Narrator: Martha Stewart.
Tyler Durden: Fuck Martha Stewart. Martha’s polishing the brass on the Titanic. It’s all going down, man. So fuck off with your sofa units and Strinne green stripe patterns.”

-Fight Club- (Chuck Palahniuk)

“Your half-lies are so refined they look like truth.”

-Through A Glass Darkly-

“You know so much, and you don’t know anything.”

-Wild Strawberries-

“Remember, the saddest thing in life is wasted talent. You could have all the talent in the world, but if you don’t do the right thing, then nothing happens.”

-Bronx Tale-

“Listen to the pain. It’s both history teacher and fortune teller. Pain teaches us who we are, Wade. Sometimes it’s so bad we feel like we’re dying, but we can’t really live until we die a little, can we?”

-Deadpool 2-

“Once I had ambition; perhaps I’m losing it. I’m wasting my time, achieving nothing.”

-La Dolce Vita-

“I can remember everything. That’s my curse, young man. It’s the greatest curse that’s ever been inflicted on the human race: memory.”

-Citizen Cane-

Thompson: He made an awful lot of money.

Bernstein: Well, it’s no trick to make a lot of money . . . if all you want to do is make a lot of money.

-Citizen Kane-

Glenn Warburg: Your generation is addicted to attention.

Katie Kampenfelt: It’s like we all want to be famous, even though we’re not good at anything.

-Ask Me Anything- (Allison Burnett)

“Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin, and they end, with no lasting memories made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life.”

-500 Days of Summer-

“Nostalgia is denial—denial of the painful present.”

-Midnight In Paris-

“It’s all these people talking about how great technology is, and how it saves all this time. But, what good is saved time, if nobody uses it? If it just turns into more busy work. You never hear somebody say, with the time I’ve saved by using my word processor, I’m gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out.”

-Before Sunrise-

“I always think that I’m still this 13-year-old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.”

-Before Sunrise-

“I don’t know, I think that if I could just accept the fact that my life is supposed to be difficult. You know, that’s what to be expected, then I might not get so pissed-off about it and I’ll just be glad when something nice happens.”

-Before Sunset-

“I see the people that do the real work, and what in a way is really sad is that the people that are often the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better don’t really have the ambition and ego to be a leader—they don’t see any interest in the rewards, they don’t care if their names ever appear in the press, they actually enjoy the process of helping others, they are truly in the moment.”

-Before Sunset-

“You need to resign yourself to the awkwardness of life. Only if you find peace within yourself will you find true connection with others.”

-Before Sunrise-

Reggie Lampert: Why do people have to tell lies?

Peter Joshua: Usually it’s because they want something. They are afraid the truth won’t get it for them.

-Charade-

Prof. Peter Hoberg: Nobody feels like an adult. It’s the world’s dirty secret.

–Liberal Arts-

“You call yourself a free spirit, a “wild thing,” and you’re terrified somebody’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”

-Breakfast At Tiffany’s- (Truman Capote)

“Sometimes I feel like I’m fighting for a life I ain’t got time to live.”

-Dallas Buyer’s Club-

Conor: It’s like, when you don’t know someone, they’re more interesting. They can be anything you want them to be.

Eamon: Yeah?

Conor: But when you know them, there’s limits to them.

-Sing Street-

“Stop looking at the world through your cellphone screen. Have a real experience.”

-Birdman-

“Stop waiting for life to be easy. Stop hoping for somebody to save you. Face some hard facts and you could have an incredible life.”

-To The Bone-

“That’s when you know you’ve found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence.”

-Pulp Fiction-

” . . . you know to be in the moment. I mean, I feel like I’m designed to be slightly dissatisfied with everything, you know?”

-Before Sunrise-

“He had a breakdown, it happens to people. If they’re weak. Live longer, you’ll see. Life can even bring down the strong.”

-Loving Vincent-

“You know what I think? I think from the time we leave our parents house until we have kids—that’s the only time your life is completely your own. You know I think I had about a decade of that. It was great. It was just like one long, flowing . . . a day, a week, a year, there wasn’t much difference.”

-Before Midnight-

Charlie Andrews That was lucky.

Gandhi: I thought you were a man of God.

Charlie Andrews: I am, but I’m not so egotistical as to think he plans his day around my dilemmas.

-Ghandi-

“Knowing what you want is half the battle most people go through their whole lives not knowing what they want.”

-Cashback-

“I think some deranged part of me likes thinking I’m the only one with real problems. Like that makes me special.”

-The Edge Of Seventeen-

Ethel: [to Chelsea] Don’t you think that everyone looks back on their childhood with a certain amount of bitterness and regret about something? You’re a big girl now. Aren’t you tired of it all? Bore, bore. It doesn’t have to ruin your life, darling. Life marches by, Chels. I suggest you get on with it.

-On Golden Pond-

“4:00 wallow in self-pity. 4:30 stare into the abyss. 5:00 solve world hunger. Tell no one. 5:30 jazzercise. 6:30 dinner with me. I can’t cancel again! 7:00 wrestle with my self-loathing . . . I’m booked!”

-How The Grinch Stole Christmas-

“You think it’s cool to hate things. It’ not. It’s boring. Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don’t.”

-Liberal Arts-

“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”

-The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button-

“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and theirselves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.”

-Ratatouille-

“Anything wrong? you look depressed. Some days are like that. Everyone you meet is an imbecile. So you start looking in the mirror and wondering about yourself.”

-Pierrot Le Fou-