44 Movie Quotes about Grief (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Sep 24, 2025

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.

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

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

12 I thought it would be nice if I went to the cemetery and laid a wreath of flowers on his grave. However, I never got there. Sentiment overwhelmed me. I stopped off to have a drink to his sainted memory.

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

13 I have been really hurt, you know? First time is always the worst. That was when my mother died. -How old were you? -Nine. -That's old enough to hurt. Oh, yes. It was the end of my world.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

14 When my mother died, I was your age. I thought that if I prayed for her to get better and if I really believed, she'd get better. Then, she wouldn't die. But she did. -It doesn't work. -No, it doesn't work. -I don't care.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

15 Because I'm a bit of a psychic myself. And I'm predicting that if any grief comes to anyone I know, there's going to be twice as much of the same to whoever caused it.

Paul Winfield as Mr. Eskridge in The Greatest (1977)

16 It will be a new year, but without our old friend. -Our dear friend. -Our former friend.

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in A Very Merry Pooh Year

17 It don't seem real. How he ain't gonna never breathe again, ever. How he's dead. And the other one, too. All on account of pulling a trigger.

Jaimz Woolvett as Schofield Kid in Unforgiven

18 She's a wonderful woman. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

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

19 If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Marlon Brando as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (1953)

20 Yeah. Very touching. Very, very touching. I'd be more impressed if I thought those tears were for your old man.

Telly Savalas as Lt. Theo Kojak in Kojak

44 Movie Quotes about Grief (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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