17 Movie Quotes about Despair (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 23, 2026

Memorable quotes about despair, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 What is the Nothing? -It's the emptiness that's left. It is like a despair destroying this world.

Gmork in The NeverEnding Story (1984)

2 Just look at that miserable creature, doggedly struggling to maintain life, a gaunt, lean bag of bones and feathers. Truly a picture of despair.

Edgar Bergen as Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd in Fun and Fancy Free

3 No, no. Nothing can help now. Nothing.

Quote from Cinderella (1950)

4 Can't you see the tears we're crying?

Quote from Robin Hood (1973)

5 The tower. Grim monument to despair. Cold, cruel, forbidding.

Quote from The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad

6 This must mean I'm lost. And I didn't even know I was missing. What am I gonna do? How am I gonna find me? I can't go on much longer. I'm a goner. Done for.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

7 Then there's hope. -Don't be ridiculous. There's no hope at all. We don't have a compass.

David Thewlis as Mr. Earthworm; Simon Callow as Mr. Grasshopper in James and the Giant Peach (1996)

8 He did not care anymore. Life and death... the same.

Makoto Iwamatsu as Akiro The Wizard in Conan the Barbarian (1982)

9 And now my heart is totally broken. I'll never be happy again. Never, never, never, never.

Tiffany Darwish as Judy Jetson in Jetsons: The Movie (1990)

10 My days are numbered and the number is three. It's hopeless.

Dom DeLuise as Fagin in Oliver & Company (1988)