Benjamin Button Quotes: Wisdom and Life Lessons

Some people are born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim the English Channel. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people can dance.

We’re meant to lose the people we love. How else are we supposed to know how important they are?

For what it’s worth, it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be.

Your life is defined by its opportunities… even the ones you miss.

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

Along the way you bump into people who make a dent on your life.

You can be whatever you want to be, you can do whatever you want to do.

Our intimacies, bathing, dressing, feeding him, helping him to walk again. In some ways, we were like a old married couple. In other ways, like mother and son.

It’s funny how sometimes the people we remember the least make the greatest impression on us.

We all end up in diapers.

I remember the first time I saw you. Your head was so…funny shaped.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Mind my flowers, that’s where my husband’s buried.

You never know what’s coming for you.

My name is Benjamin Button, and I was born under unusual circumstances.

All my life I?ve been right there next to you.

You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.

It’s not when you’re born or when you die, it’s what you do in between.

I didn’t know my father very well, but I remember his hands. They were strong. And they were kind. And I have no doubt they were the hands of a great clockmaker.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away.

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can swear and curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

Life isn’t measured in minutes, but in moments.

Some people were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim the English Channel. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people can dance.

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

For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.

I was thinking how nothing lasts, and what a shame that is.

You never know what?s comin? for ya.

Age is just a number, it doesn’t matter.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

It’s a funny thing about coming home, it looks the same, smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.

It’s a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same, smells the same. You’ll realize what’s changed is you.

I was thinking how nothing lasts, and what a shame that is.

You never know what’s coming for you.

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

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

Along the way you bump into people who make a dent on your life.

I’m a perfectly normal-sized man!

Your life is defined by its opportunities… even the ones you miss.

Just makes me feel like an old man!

Aging doesn’t matter, if you don’t pay attention to it, time can move as fast as you want it to.

Some people, were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people, dance.

I made you a promise, a long time ago.

The people we’re supposed to be with are already in our lives.

One the day you were born, the sun shone… for the very first time.

We all start out in the same way.

Sometimes we’re on a collision course, and we just don’t know it.

No matter what happens, it’s never what’s happening that’s the most important thing. It’s what you do about it, that counts.

I always thought I was me – but no, I was you and never knew it.

You can be mad as a mad dog at the way things went; you can swear, curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.