Elan Vital can refer to:
- Élan vital, a philosophical term coined by Henri Bergson roughly translated to vital impetus or force
- Elan Vital (organization), a nonprofit group formed in the United States, active from 1971 to 2010
- Élan Vital (album), an album by the music group Pretty Girls Make Graves
- Elan Vital, a partially sentient machine from the anime series Melody of Oblivion
Famous quotes containing the word vital:
“What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)