33 Movie Quotes about Hard Times (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 It can happen to the best of us. One moment everything is going smoothly. And the next, fate pulls the rug out from under us.

Alan Napier as Alfred The Butler in Batman (1966)

22 And they're living proof that, however bad things get, if you persevere you survive and sometimes even win.

David Niven as Sir Charles Litton in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

23 I don't have to tell you things are bad, everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job.

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)

24 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)

25 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)

26 The desperate assumption that somebody or at least some force is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.

Quote from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

27 Through his adversity, he learned to fight... and fight well.

Quote from Kung Pow! Enter the Fist

28 Day by day, I struggle to maintain not only my strength but my sanity. It's all a blur.

Quote from Platoon

29 I've struggled for food and for money, I've weeded, and hoed and picked cotton till I can't stand it another minute.

Quote from Gone with the Wind (1939)

30 If you're burdened down with trouble, if your nerves are wearing thin...

Quote from Holiday Inn (1942)