The best Quotes from Twelve

You will not be remembered if you die now. You'll be buried and mourned by a few and what more can you ask for? The world will spiral from underneath you, and you are either too smart or too dumb to find God. Maybe you are angry, only because the way out is through love - and you are just horny and lonely.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder.

Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

Love the life you live.
Live the life you love.

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

If you can't find something to live for, you best find something to die for.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.

I love life. Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like... it makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one wo is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

I don't want to survive, I want to live!

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

There's no death for those who don't fear it.

Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age.

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

It's odd, isn't it? People die everyday and the world goes on like nothing happened.

We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

What happens after you die? Lots of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.

The one who lives in the memories of his loved ones can't be dead; dead is only who's forgotten.

Deny death, and you deny life.

You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.

Death can be the greatest opportunity of your life.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Facing your own mortality forces you to re-evaluate your priorities.

When you know death comes soon, you look around things more close.

Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.

I will escape for every innocent woman whose life was stolen.

Elodie, you join a long line of women who have helped to build this kingdom. It is this sacrifice we commemorate every generation. A tradition going back centuries. A legacy of honor and duty you now inherit.

I need you to listen to me now. I don't trust them. They may be royalty, but that doesn't make them good people.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.

Dizzy: "My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything."
Jean Rasczak: "Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that."
Carmen: "They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed."
Jean Rasczak: "Correct. Naked force has resolved more conflicts throughout history than any other factor. The contrary opinion, that violence doesn't solve anything, is wishful thinking at its worst. People who forget that always die."

I need a corporal. You're it, until you're dead or I find someone better.

Someone asked me once if I knew the difference between a civilian and a citizen. I know now. A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility. Dizzy was my friend. She was a soldier. But most important, she was a citizen of the Federation.

This is for all you new people. I have only one rule. Everybody fights, no one quits. If you don't do your job, I'll kill you myself! Welcome to the Roughnecks!