“A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really....” – Maude, Harold and Maude ... Movie Quotes Database

A scene from Harold and Maude 1971

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an "L". Give me an "I". Give me a "V". Give me an "E". L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.

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Maude Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany he realized they had only been sea gulls... For me they will always be -- glorious birds. Maude Turn the radio off, it saves battery. Harold I haven't lived. [beat] I've died a few times.