Dead Poets Society Quotes

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

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

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

We’re not laughing at you – we’re laughing near you

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

O me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless… of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

Let me dispel a few rumors so they don’t fester into facts.

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.

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

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn’t mean choking on the bone.

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