Life, George Santayana

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

- George Santayana (1863-1952)

Life, Aaron Hotchner from Criminal minds

Hotch: "We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. The goal is to create something that will." Chuck Palahniuk

- Aaron Hotchner, Criminal minds, The Angel Maker [4.2]

Life, Claire Danes as Angela from My So-Called Life (1994)

Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart.

- Claire Danes as Angela Chase from My So-Called Life, Pressure [1.13]

Life, Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold from The Wonder Years

You start out life with a clean slate. Then you begin to make your mark. You face decisions, make choices. You keep moving forward. But sooner or later there comes a time where you look back over where you have been...and wonder who you really are.

- Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold from The Wonder Years; It's a Mad, Mad, Madeline World [4.5]

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Youth, Corey Feldman as Teddy Duchamp from Stand by Me (1986)

Chris: Teddy, why can't you act your age?
Teddy: I am acting my age. I'm in the prime of my youth and I'll only be young once!
Chris: Yeah, but you're gonna be stupid for the rest of your life.

- Corey Feldman as Teddy Duchamp from Stand by Me (1986)

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Life, Jessica Tandy as Ninny Threadgoode from Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

Everyone thought she'd die right along with him. Night after night, she stayed by the river. Big George was the only soul she'd let near her, and he watched over her night and day. You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beating just the same.

- Jessica Tandy as Ninny Threadgoode from Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

Life, Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden from Fight Club (1999)

You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you, never wanted you, in all probability he hates you. It's not the worst thing that could happen.

- Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden from Fight Club (1999)

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Life, Ally Mcbeal

The real truth is, I probably don't want to be too happy or content. Because, then what? I actually like the quest, the search. That's the fun. The more lost you are, the more you have to look forward to. What do you know? I'm having a great time and I don't even know it.

- Calista Kay Flockhart as Ally McBeal from Ally McBeal

Life, Chaim Topol as Reb Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

[to God] It may sound like I'm complaining, but I'm not. After all, with Your help, I'm starving to death. Oh, dear Lord. You made many many poor people. I realize, of course, it's no shame to be poor... but it's no great honor either. So what would be so terrible... if I had a small fortune?

- Chaim Topol as Reb Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Life, Barbra Streisand as Katie Morosky Gardiner from The Way We Were (1973)

Katie Morosky Gardiner: Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were old? We'd have survived all this. Everything thing would be uncomplicated, the way it was when we were young?
Hubbell Gardiner: Katie, it was never uncomplicated.

- Barbra Streisand as Katie Morosky Gardiner from The Way We Were (1973)

Life, Rico from Gunslinger Girl

Every morning, when I wake up, the first thought I have is: “I wonder if I still have my body.” What a relief! It still works. I can't describe in words how wonderful it is to have a body that works. I love my life at the Social Welfare Agency very much.

- Rico (リコ), Gunslinger Girl, Chapter 2: Love Thy Neighbor

Life, Winnie the Pooh

If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

- Winnie the Pooh

Life, Will Smith as Alex Hitch Hitchens from Hitch (2005)

Because that's what people do. They leap, and hope to God they can fly, because otherwise you just drop like a rock, wondering the whole way down, why in the hell did I jump? But here I am, Sarah, falling, and there's only one person who makes me feel like I can fly. It's you.

- Will Smith as Alex "Hitch" Hitchens from Hitch (2005)

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Tomorrow, Jared Jussim as Dicky Fox from Jerry Maguire (1996)

Roll with the punches. Tomorrow is another day.

- Jared Jussim as Dicky Fox from Jerry Maguire

Life, Sally Field as Mrs. Gump from Forrest Gump (1994)

Forrest Gump: What's the matter, Momma?
Mrs. Gump: I'm dyin', Forrest. Come on in, sit down over here.
Forrest Gump: Why are you dyin', Momma?
Mrs. Gump: It's my time. It's just my time. Oh, now, don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life. It's something we're all destined to do. I didn't know it, but I was destined to be your momma. I did the best I could.
Forrest Gump: You did good, Momma.
Mrs. Gump: Well, I happened to believe you make your own destiny. You have to do the best with what God gave you.
Forrest Gump: What's my destiny, Momma?
Mrs. Gump: You're gonna have to figure that out for yourself. Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get.
Forrest Gump: [narrating] Momma always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.
Mrs. Gump: I will miss you, Forrest.
Forrest Gump: [narrating] She had got the cancer and died on a Tuesday. I bought her a new hat with little flowers on it. And that's all I have to say about that.

- Sally Field as Mrs. Gump from Forrest Gump (1994)

Life, Sailor Mercury from Sailor Moon

The future is something you build by yourself.

- Sailor Mercury, Sailor Moon

Life, Peter Boyle as Wizard from Taxi Driver (1976)

Look, look at it this way, you know uh, a man, a man takes a job, you know, and that job, I mean like that, and that it becomes what he is. You know like uh, you do a thing and that's what you are. Like I've been a, I've been a cabbie for seventeen years, ten years at night and I still don't own my own cab. You know why? 'Cause I don't want to. I must be what I, what I want. You know, to be on the night shift drivin' somebody else's cab.

- Peter Boyle as Wizard from Taxi Driver (1976)

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Beauty, Sailor Moon

It's sad that a selfish woman like you will never know how wonderful being in love is! Your beautiful world of ice will just be a dark land of death! How could a world without life be beautiful?

- Sailor Moon

Life, Nina Dobrev as Elena from Vampire Diaries

All you can do is be ready for the good, so when it comes, you invite it in. Because you need it. I need it.

- Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert from Vampire Diaries, Pilot [1.1]

Life, Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert from Vampire Diaries

Dear Diary, I made it through the day. I must have said "I'm fine, thanks" at least 37 times. And I didn't mean it once. But no one noticed. When someone asks "How are you?", they really don't want an answer.

- Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert from Vampire Diaries, Pilot [1.1]