87 Movie Quotes about Emotional Pain (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

Updated: May 2, 2026

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

71 Is there anything so sad as unrequited love?

Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur (1959)

72 It seemed to him unbearable that what he had done could never be undone.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

73 Why do we never see you? -I have all I need here. Drink and drugs and no friends. I've had too many friends.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

74 I love you. And that painful, decaying love is the only thing between you and the shrieking nothingness you live the rest of the day. -Then don't leave me.

William Holden as Max Schumacher in Network (1976)

75 The words are by a famous writer, Goethe. I will try to say them for you in English. Let's see now. 'Only who knows what longing is can know what I suffer'.

Robert Boone as Professor Bhaer in Little Women (1950)

76 All our lives we have seen our women suffer: poverty, hunger, thirst, sickness, misery. -We have seen nothing else. -We have borne this a long time.

Betty Garde as Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

77 Mummy got sick. And it happened just like that. There's nothing anybody could do. It isn't fair. There's no reason. And if we start asking why, we'll go crazy.

Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin in Sleepless in Seattle

78 Dear Father in Heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope. I... Show me the way, O God.

Quote from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

79 Loneliness, that's the bottom line.

Robert Hays as Ted Striker in Airplane (1980)

80 And because of you I must suffer. It really isn't fair. For your sins, I must pay.

Jackie Chan as Dubbed By Unknown Actor in Spiritual Kung Fu (1978)