Dead Poets Society And Quotes

#1. We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

Robin Williams

#2. The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

Robin Williams

#3. Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and ... you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.

Edward Everett Hale

#4. What's often in your heart is the hardest to reach.

George Harrison

#5. You've got to be around people who encourage you, advice you and want to see you go even higher and higher than they themselves have attained!

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. The experience on that movie ( Dead Poets Society ) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.

Ethan Hawke

#7. I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#8. We were marked and had been marked in unforgettable and forever ways. We were all better men for it. Marked men. None of us would have it any other way.

Jay Crownover

#9. Oh captain my captain

Walt Whitman

#10. Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

Robin Williams

#11. Life is too short to be stuck with the "would haves" "could haves" and "should haves." It's on you to make sure you live every second as if it was your last.

Cara Alwill Leyba

#12. Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.

Tom Schulman

#13. What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.

Russell Brand

#14. If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.

Jake M. Johnson

#15. Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

Tom Schulman

#16. The knowledge that God lives in us will destroy all the limitations in the mind of those who have the name of Christ, but yet are weak

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

Robin Williams

#18. That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

N.H. Kleinbaum

#19. The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.

David Walton

#20. When the work is done, and one's name is becoming distinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven.

Lao-Tzu

#21. Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

E. M. Forster

#22. When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

Tom Schulman

#23. I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

Robin Williams

#24. Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

Robin Williams

#25. When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think.

N.H. Kleinbaum

#26. I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

Robin Williams

#27. When I was ten, I spent a school holiday watching a lot of films: 'Dead Poets Society', 'Stand By Me', 'Home Alone' and 'The Goonies'. It completely inspired me. I told my parents I wanted to become an actor after that.

Russell Tovey

#28. I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.

Ivan Turgenev

#29. Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.

Tom Schulman

#30. I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life ( ... ).

Henry David Thoreau