The Hunger Games: Katniss’s Most Inspirational Quotes

The Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen is a strong, selfless leader who puts everyone else’s life before her own. Here are her most inspirational quotes.

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One of the most prominent YA series of the last decade – and all time – is The Hunger Games. Based on Suzanne Collins’s popular book trilogy, the four movie adaptations were received well by readers and critics, as well as its large new audience. At the heart of the story is its fierce protagonist, Katniss Everdeen.

Katniss is a very reluctant leader who later becomes a catalyst and a symbol around whom the people rally. Molding a generation and sparking a new wave of powerful YA heroines, Katniss is truly a hero that audiences can connect with. With her fiery personality and sharp tongue, she delivers some memorable and inspirational lines.

Updated on January 2nd, 2021 by Svetlana Sterlin: Years after its conclusion, The Hunger Games continues to be popular with fans. In fact, the franchise is only expanding, with a followup movie adaptation based around Suzanne Collins’ prequel novel, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”, which was published in 2020 and focuses on the history of the Games and President Snow’s rise to power. In the meantime, here’s another look at what makes The Hunger Games such a popular story, with five additional quotes from Katniss Everdeen herself. These inspirational lines show just why the character became such a world-famous icon and will get any fan of the series pumped up once again.

15 “I Volunteer As Tribute.”

One of the most memorable moments of the entire series is when Katniss volunteers in her sister’s place. It’s what sparks the sequence of events that leads to a nationwide uprising, and it’s the relationship between Katniss and Prim that gives the story so much heart.

Prim keeps Katniss grounded, inspires her, and gives her hope. But when Katniss volunteers, it gives other people hope: that goodness still exists, and that love is the most important thing in this bleak world – so important that it can save them.

14 “I’ll Tell You How I Survive It.”

In the final scene of Mockingjay Part 2, Katniss is in the Meadow with Peeta and their children. Her baby daughter wakes from a nightmare, and Katniss is quick to comfort her, though viewers get the feeling she’s mostly talking to herself (and the audience). “I have nightmares, too. Someday I’ll explain it to you – why they came, why they won’t ever go away. But I’ll tell you how I survive it. I make a list in my head of all the good things I’ve seen someone do …”

Years after the uprising, Katniss still has nightmares, but she’s finally at a point where she’s found a way to deal with them. This in itself is inspiring, as is her message of hope to her daughter. When she says, “there are much worse games to play,” it reminds viewers that kindness triumphs violence. This is why she chooses Peeta, and why they’re so compatible.

13 “Nothing Good Is Safe While He’s Alive, And I Can’t Make Another Speech About It.”

Katniss is restless for much of Mockingjay, being locked up underground in District 13. One of the few positive things to come out of her time there is her renewed ambition to join the rebellion.

She befriends Johanna after she’s rescued from the Capitol, and the two find that they agree on a lot of the same things. Katniss tells her that she’s going to kill Snow. “No more cameras, no more props, no more games. He needs to see my eyes when I kill him.”

12 “I Guess There Are No More Rules About What A Person Can Do To Another Person.”

After getting out of the Games, Katniss feels alienated from Gale. He doesn’t completely understand her experience or why it has changed her views so much, particularly when it comes to war and rebellion.

Gale and Katniss sometimes refer to a rule book of violence and morals, but Gale insists that Snow threw it away long ago. Still, Katniss tries to maintain her sense of righteousness and mercy.

11 “It Must Be A Fragile System If It Can Be Brought Down By Just A Few Berries.”

At the beginning of Catching Fire, Katniss comes home from a hunting trip to find an unwelcome guest in her house: President Snow. He has come to warn and threaten her, but it’s the sight of him sitting in her house that scares her the most.

Snow wants Katniss to contain the spark she has created. He tells her to convince him that she’s in love with Peeta, that her actions in the first Games were done out of her out-of-control emotions. She hides her fear and remarks that his system isn’t as strong as he’d like it to be, reminding him that she’s still a threat, even if she doesn’t want to be.

10 “With That Kind Of Thinking, You Can Kill Whoever You Want.”

The difference between Gale and Katniss becomes very evident in Mockingjay when the uprising really heats up. When she finds that Gale doesn’t mind crushing civilians in a mine, Katniss feels disillusioned. Gale’s reasoning, and Gale’s ease with othering people, seeing them as villains and enemies, is a very dangerous approach.

Katniss realizes that he’s using the same reasoning that the Capitol uses when they send kids to the Hunger Games. It’s a fine line, and crossing it allows one to kill whoever they want. Katniss’s true personality is revealed when she disagrees with Gale.

9 “I, Of All People, Know That It Is Always Personal.”

Gale believes that murder isn’t personal in the context of a war. But Katniss has been through the Hunger Games twice and constantly has Snow’s death threats on her tail, so of course, she disagrees.

Gale has no firsthand experience with combat until Catching Fire. For much of the first movie, Gale has been watching things play out from a distance, seeing how the rebellion unravels. Katniss, on the other hand, doesn’t have the advantage of a bigger-picture perspective.

8 “Thank You For Your Consideration.”

When Katniss is first introduced in The Hunger Games, she is a spunky, outspoken, and courageous person who doesn’t care about pleasing other people. The training before the Games is the first instance where this becomes clear. When the Gamemakers don’t pay her attention during her demonstration, she is astounded by their lack of consideration.

In her anger, she shoots out an apple from the mouth of a roasted pig that seems to be getting more attention than her. After this remarkable feat, she bows and sarcastically thanks them, which makes Katniss someone to watch out for in the arena.

7 “No. They Don’t. Why Should They?”

At the end of the first Hunger Games, the Gamemakers change the rules and say that only one victor may live. Peeta states the obvious: “One of us has to die. They have to have their victor.” But Katniss doesn’t agree with this.

This is the moment that changes the future entirely – the moment the world sees in her the leader of the rebellion. She asks, “Why should they?” and pulls out the berries to make sure she goes out on her terms and not theirs.

6 “I Never Wanted Any Of This.”

Katniss is still a teenager, but the number of tragedies and difficulties she’s experienced in life, and the way in which she continues forward, somehow makes viewers forget that she’s so young. In a few of her more vulnerable moments, she admits that she never asked to be in the Games, to become a symbol, or to lead a revolution. She was just a child trying to survive.

The Capitol pushes her to do things she doesn’t want to, and later, the rebels thrust upon her a responsibility she doesn’t want. However, even though she never wanted any of this, she knows she must continue to fight for the greater good and do what is right.

5 “I Outgrew Them.”

When Finnick asks her what happened to her pretty girl dresses, she says that she outgrew them. This is the moment that viewers see that she isn’t the same girl she was in The Hunger Games.

In Catching Fire, viewers see a Katniss who is struggling to understand her role in everything. She no longer wishes to just survive for her own sake. She understands her role and is willing to support the movement against the Capitol. In the moment, it means wearing something meaningful, rather than something that will please Snow.

4 “If We Burn, You Burn With Us!”

This is easily one of the most iconic quotes in the series. Katniss has just witnessed the horrific violence that the Capitol inflicts on the outlying Districts, and she doesn’t need to read from a speech to feel the spark of rebellion in her

This is the moment when she evolves into the leader of the rebellion – into the leader the people around her already perceived her to be. She’s the embodiment of heroism as she shouts the words with angry tears in her eyes.

3 “We Keep Each Other Alive. That’s What We Do.”

Katniss evolves into someone who sees a life beyond survival. Over the course of Catching Fire, viewers see how she starts to place Peeta’s life ahead of her own. In Mockingjay, she places the rebellion ahead of her own needs. In retrospect, it’s clear that this begins with her care for Peeta.

In a way, their willingness to go to any length to keep each other alive is what keeps the movement going because it goes against the Capitol’s belief in individualism, and the sole protection of individual interests.

2 “I Am Done Being A Piece In His Game.”

In The Hunger Games, Peeta says that he doesn’t want to just be another piece in the Capitol’s Games. At this point, Katniss doesn’t have the luxury of thinking this way, but in the arena, she slowly comes to understand the value of Peeta’s words.

Much later, in Mockingjay – Part 2, she repeats his words in a moment truly reflective of the journey she has made so far. It also speaks to Peeta’s character that he is aware of his tiny role before the rebellion even begins.

1 “I’m Not Afraid.”

Katniss, in her more vulnerable moments, admits to being scared. She tells Gale that she’s been scared since the Reaping. After her worst fears come true when Prim’s name is picked, she is forced to witness children die and is forced to kill some herself.

Through it all, she goes through emotional distress, physical pain, and horrific trauma, so naturally, she’s afraid. But when she is in front of people who need her to be strong, she holds her head up high. It’s her loved ones who help her feel confident, supported, and less afraid.

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