If he can find the goodness somewhere, if there is a chance to find some kind of redemption before we leave this Earth then life’s moments will have mattered. This is the story of failure. My failure. For all of the failures of this life. Of my life. Fade to nothing. Just fleeting moments. ibid. Garcia
This is Life. Right here. Right now. Take it. DOA 1988 starring Dennis Quaid & Meg Ryan & Daniel Stern & Jane Kaczmarek & Christopher Neame & Robin Johnson & Robert Knepper & Jack Kenoe & Charlotte Rampling et al, directors Annabel Jankel & Rocky Morton, her to him
The only thing that matters is to have some fun. Live while you’re here. Hard as you can. Do what you want. Get what you can. Dillinger 1991 starring Mark Harmon & Sherilyn Fenn & Will Patton & Bruce Abbott & Tom Bower et al, director Rupert Wainwright, Dillinger
When you’re seventy you realise that life is nonsense. Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead 1995 starring Christopher Walken & Andy Garcia & Steve Buscemi & Christopher Lloyd & William Forsythe & Bill Nunn & Treat Williams & Jack Warden et al, director Gary Fleder, recorded after-death message
So what’s the point of it? Woman of Straw 1964 starring Sean Connery & Gina Lollobrigida & Ralph Richardson & Alexander Knox & Johnny Sekka & Laurence Hardy & Peter Madden et al, director Basil Dearden Richardson
Enjoy your life. Enjoy it. ibid.
Most men live lives of quiet desperation. The Lost Weekend 1945 starring Ray Milland & Jane Wyman & Phillip Terry & Howard Da Silva & Doris Dowling & Frank Faylen & Mary Young & Anita Sharp-Bolster & Lilian Fontaine et al, director Billy Wilder, Don to Helen
You’ve nothing to stay for. You’ve nothing to live for really, have you? Rebecca 1940 starring Laurence Olivier & Joan Fontaine & Judith Anderson & George Sanders & Nigel Bruce & Florence Bates & Reginald Denny & Gladys Cooper & C Aubrey Smith et al, director Alfred Hitchcock, Mrs Danvers
Things just never the way they seem ... It wasn’t such a hell of a life. Cool Hand Luke 1967 starring Paul Newman & George Kennedy & Strother Martin & Jo van Fleet & Joy Harmon & Morgan Woodward & Luke Askew & Robert Donner & Clifton James et al, director Stuart Rosenberg, Lucas to aunt
Nothing to live for. Gone with the Wind 1939 starring Clark Gable & Vivien Leigh & Leslie Howard & Olivia de Haviland & Thomas Mitchell & Barbara Mitchell & Evelyn Keyes & Ann Rutherford & George Reeves & Fred Crane & Hattie McDaniel & Alicia Rhett et al, director Victor Fleming, Scarlett
No matter how hard living is, you can’t die. Breathless 2008 starring Yang Ik-June & Kim Khot-Bi & Jung Man-Shik & Lee Hwan & Yun Seung-Hun & Kim Hee-Su & Park Jung-Sun & Oh Ji-Hye, director Yang Ik-June, Sang Hoon
I'm just sick of it all. ibid.
Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you’re not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. ’Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is. The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 starring Clint Eastwood & Chief Dan George & Sondra Locke & Bill McKinney & John Vernon & Paula Trueman & Sam Bottoms & Geraldine Keams & Woodrow Parfrey & Joyce Jameson et al, director Clint Eastwood, Josey
It’s living that’s hard. ibid. Josey
What else is there to do but wait? The Magnificent Seven 1960 starring Steve McQueen & Yul Brynner & Charles Bronson & Robert Vaughn & Brad Dexter & Eli Wallach & Horst Buchholz & Vladimir Sokoloff et al, director John Sturges, Mexican
Don’t do it, Billy. Give yourself a chance to live. Gunfight at the OK Corral 1957 starring Burt Lancaster & Kirk Douglas & Dennis Hopper & Rhonda Fleming & Jo van Fleet & John Ireland & Lyle Bettger & Frank Faylen & Earl Holliman & Ted de Corsia & Whit Bissell et al, director John Sturgess, Earp
You and I – we don’t matter, Kate. We haven’t mattered since the day we were born. ibid. him to her
Do you ever have that feeling where you are not sure if you are awake or dreaming? The Matrix 1999 starring Keanu Reeves & Laurence Fishburne & Carrie-Anne Moss & Hugo Weaving & Joe Pantoliano & Gloria Foster & Marcus Chong & Julian Arahanga & Matt Doran & Belinda McClory et al, directors Andy & Lana Wachowski
Let me tell you why you are here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain. But you feel it. You have felt it your entire life. That there is something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s like there’s a splinter in your mind driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Do you want to know what it is? The Matrix is everything. All around us ... It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. That you are a slave, Neil. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison you cannot smell or touch. A prison for your mind. ibid. Morpheus
Nothing works out just the way you want it to. The Matrix Revolutions 2003 starring Keanu Reeves & Laurence Fishburne & Carrie-Anne Moss & Hugo Weaving & Jada Pinkett Smith & Mary Alice & Harry J Lennix & Harold Perrineau & Lambert Wilson & Monica Bellucci et al, directors The Wachowskis, The Oracle to Morpheus
Generally slob around. Have a few laughs. Red Dwarf s1e3: Balance of Power, Lister’s plan, BBC 1988
Additional: as the days go by we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless uninhabited hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you’ve got to laugh, haven’t you. Red Dwarf s2e1: Kryten
I hate my life. We seem to spend every day designing more and more ingenious ways of wasting time. I’m sick of it. Red Dwarf s3e5: Timeslides
You simply have to seize the gift of life. Make a contribution. No matter how small. You simply have to have led a life that wasn’t totally egocentric, vain and self-serving. Red Dwarf s5e2: The Inquisitor, Kryten to Rimmer
Maybe the bleak lonely pointless emptiness of our hopeless futile predicament is beginning to get to him. Red Dwarf s6e6: Out of Time, Kryten to Lister & Cat
Now let’s start by getting one thing straight – I’m not a do-gooder. If you’re a bum, if you can’t break off from the booze or whatever makes you a bad risk then get out. Now I don’t pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love when every day is just a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive. Because the days and the years ahead are worth living for. And one day soon man is going to be able to harness incredible energies, maybe even the atom. Energies that could ultimately hurl us to [inaudible] world in some sort of space ship. And the men that reach out into space will be able to find ways to feed the hungry millions of the world and cure their diseases. They will be able to find a way to give each man hope and a common future. And those are the days’ worth living for. Star Trek s1e28: The City on the Edge of Forever, Joan Collins’ speech
This has all been a great laboratory. And we have been the subject of the test. Star Trek s3e12: The Empath, Kirk
You seem to find no tranquillity in anything. You struggle against the inevitable. You thrive on conflict. You are selfish yet you value loyalty. You are rash, quick to judge, slow to change. Star Trek: The Next Generation s2e2: Where Silence Has Lease, Alien
Life is rarely fair. Star Trek: The Next Generation s2e9: The Measure of a Man, Data to Geordi
Seize the time ... Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again. Star Trek: The Next Generation s5e25: The Inner Light
You may experience the emptiness with me if you wish. Star Trek: The Next Generation s7e3: Interface, Data to Geordi
I want to do something with my life. Something worthwhile. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s3e14: Heart of Stone, Nog to Sisko
I never knew how much it means just to – live. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s7e10: It's Only a Paper Moon, Vic to Nog
They all told me the same thing: there is no point in living, and I agree with them. Star Trek: Voyager s4e12: Mortal Coil, Neelix to Chakotay
Indulgences are what makes like worth living. Star Trek: Voyager s7e7: Body & Soul, Doctor to Seven of Nine, with Harry