33 Movie Quotes about Hard Times (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Aug 6, 2026

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

11 But I always say the bad times fade away and the good ones adhere themselves to your memory. -Yes. Excuse me. -Oh, it's all right.

Robin Williams as Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire in Mrs. Doubtfire

12 Besides, Mother, how do we know what hard times are ahead of us? Maybe we'll do for another depression.

Rosemary DeCamp as Loretta in The Future Is Yours (1948)

13 I'm not saying that pain is purposeless or even neutral, but to find meaning in pain, there has to be something else.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

14 But it is my day. It is, my friend. After three long, terrible years, it is at last my day.

Herbert Lom as Former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

15 I used to number the months by a battle, a pestilence, a famine. Now it's all one long nightmare.

Quote from Helen of Troy (1956)

16 Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen.

Jennifer Connelly as Sarah in Labyrinth (1986)

17 Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed, but still, you find reasons to keep living.

Quote from Princess Mononoke

18 And it ain't over now because when the going gets tough, the tough get going!

John Belushi as John "Bluto" Blutarsky; John Bluto Blutarsky in Animal House (1978)

19 Ah, I don't know what I am. Why does life have to be so hard for some of us?

Dirk Benedict as Faceman in The A-Team

20 I tell ya, these are hard times. The whole area's gone to ruin. It's run by gangsters. Even I have to keep my head down.

Quote from Mysterious Footworks of Kung Fu