Groundhog Day isn’t just a comedy — it’s a life lesson that takes place inside of a time loop. Released in 1993 and directed by Harold Ramis, it presented us with the best of Bill Murray’s sarcastic Phil Connors, a curmudgeonly Pittsburgh weatherman who gets caught in a loop in Punxsutawney, Pa., and finds himself experiencing the same day repeatedly.
What begins as a bizarre sight gag quickly becomes something more — funny, certainly, but also strangely moving. And the Groundhog Day quotes? They’re just as sharp, dry and perversely meaningful as the kind of jokes you’d get from a movie that looks you in the eye and dares you to consider the same recursive habits in yourself with a grin. Films like Groundhod Day can be streamed on platforms like Tubi.
Let’s look specifically at the best Groundhog Day lines — looping in some humor, regret, and even a bit of unexpected wisdom.
- Phil Connors: “I’m a god. I’m not the God… I don’t think.”
- Phil Connors: “Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today.”
- Phil Connors: “This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.”
- Rita: “I always drink to world peace.”
- Phil Connors: “Do you ever have déjà vu, Mrs. Lancaster?”
Mrs. Lancaster: “I don’t think so, but I could check with the kitchen.” - Phil Connors: “Don’t drive angry. Do not drive angry!”
- Phil Connors: “I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas… at sunset. We made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn’t I get that day over and over and over?”
- Phil Connors: “It’s the same thing your whole life. Clean up your room, stand up straight, pick up your feet, take it like a man… be nice to your sister, don’t mix beer and wine, ever. Oh yeah, don’t drive on the railroad track!”
- Phil Connors: “I wake up every day right here, right in Punxsutawney, and it’s always February 2nd. And there’s nothing I can do about it.”
- Rita: “You’re not a god. You can take my word for it — this is twelve years of Catholic school talking.”
- Phil Connors: “No matter what happens tomorrow, or for the rest of my life, I’m happy now… because I love you.”
- Phil Connors: “I have been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted, and burned. And every morning I wake up without a scratch on me, not a dent in the fender… I am an immortal.”
- Rita: “Sometimes I wish I had a thousand lifetimes. I don’t know what I’d do with them all, but I know I’d want to spend at least one with you.”
- Phil Connors (final day): “Let’s live here.”
Groundhog Day isn’t just a loop. It’s a transformation. These Bill Murray quotes walk the perfect line of hilarious and bizarrely profound. Whether he’s being a jerk, going crazy or getting it right, Phil’s quest inspires all of us to spend that time — even those boring old days — a little more wisely.
Whether you’ve come for the funniest Groundhog Day quotes, some off-kilter rom-com wisdom, or to revisit one of the most intelligent comedies of the ‘90s, these quotes are always on target. Again. And again. And again.
