45 Movie Quotes about Grief (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 2, 2026

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

1 A dentist! Good grief!

Head Elf in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

2 For the world has grown full of peril and in all lands love is now mingled with grief.

Cate Blanchett as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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

Quote from Robin Hood (1973)

4 What do they say about him? -I have not the heart to tell you. For me, the grief is still too near.

Orlando Bloom as Legolas Greenleaf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

5 What do the living know about grief? Only we who are dead know what it means.

Quote from Ulysses (1954)

6 Painting the roses red and many a tear we shed. Because we know they'll cease to grow. In fact, they'll soon be dead

Quote from Alice in Wonderland (1951)

7 Don't grieve, my friend. In the memory that leaves you, separation may have a quiet happiness all its own.

Quote from Hercules In New York

8 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)

9 Shock and grief restrained me from more adequate communication.

Vincent Price as Nicholas Medina, Sebastian Medina in The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

10 Between grief and nothing, I'll take grief. -Great.

Jeffrey Jones as Ed Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off