Dead Poets Society Quotes

• Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

  Tom Schulman

  Carpe Diem, Engineering, Law

  "Dead Poets Society". www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

  Robin Williams

  Meaningful, Real, Carpe Diem

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• 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

  Believe, Carpe Diem, Breathing

  "Apple Ad Features Robin Williams’ 'Dead Poets Society' Speech" by Michelle Jones, www.valuewalk.com. August 12, 2014.

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

  Robin Williams

  Carpe Diem, Different, Looks

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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

  Robin Williams

  Carpe Diem, Thinking, Ideas

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• 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

  Carpe Diem, Boys, Voice

  "Ficitonal character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys - to woo women - and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.

  Robin Williams

  Sad, Tired, Boys

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• I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Transcendentalism, Wilderness, Great Outdoors

  "Walden: Or, Life in the Woods".

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  No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Change, Philosophy

  "Robin Williams: Genie in the Lamp" by Alex Kip, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2014.

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• The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Powerful, Play

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Funny, Dream

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• We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

  Robin Williams

  Cute, Writing, Carpe Diem

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

  Walt Whitman

  Powerful, Play, Identity

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• I am that merry wanderer of the night.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Midsummer, Wanderers

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.129

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• I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

  Walt Whitman

  Healing, Teens, World

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, I, II, VI & LII”

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• 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

  Thinking, Embarrassing, Worthless

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  Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

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• Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

  Byron Katie

  Sister, Daughter, Brother

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• So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Hands, Giving

  William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.187, Callisto Media Inc

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• She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Eye, Dark

  "SheWalks in Beauty" l. 1 (1815)

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• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Halloween, Thinking

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

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• Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Sister, Letting Go, Brother

  Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

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

  Tom Schulman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", 1989.

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• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Dream, Liars

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

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  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Hiking

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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