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:
“The poet sings how the blood flows in his veins. He performs his functions, and is so well that he needs such stimulus to sing only as plants put forth leaves and blossoms.... His song is a vital function like breathing, and an integral result like weight.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)