“I want you to know how much I love you, that you've given a meaning to my life that I had no right to expect, that no one can ever take from me.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - William Parrish

“- Judge Francis Rayford: I found out what the meaning of life is.
- Arthur Kirkland: What's that?
- Judge Francis Rayford: It sucks.”
Jack Warden - Judge Francis Rayford
Al Pacino - Arthur Kirkland

“I want that life I have left to mean something.”
Ming-Na Wen - Doctor Aki Ross

“- Warden Miller: Tell me, Rico, what is the meaning of life?
- Rico: It ends.”

Maurice Roëves - Miller
Armand Assante - Rico

“Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.”
Donald Sutherland - Bill Bowerman