17 Movie Quotes about Despair (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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.

11 We're going to starve. Waste away. And not quickly. Oh, no. That would be the easy way out. We'll linger. Slowly. Miserably. Painfully.

David Thewlis as Mr. Earthworm in James and the Giant Peach (1996)

12 There's nothing left to believe in. Nothing.

Quote from Cinderella (1950)

13 Then there's nothing left for me. Nothing to fight for. Nothing to live for.

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara; Scarlett Ohara in Gone with the Wind (1939)

14 Black folks have never had anything in this city to call their own except humiliation and despair.

Quote from Remember the Titans

15 I am poured out like water, my strength dried up into the dust... of death.

Quote from The Ten Commandments (1956)

16 You mustn't think I'm drunk. I'm not. It's just that I'm sick. Inside of me, I'm sick.

Kirk Douglas as Walter O'Neil in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

17 Go ahead. Let the tears fall in that beer.

Clint Eastwood as Bronco Billy in Bronco Billy