67 Movie Quotes about Painful Love (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: May 2, 2026

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

1 Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

Cary Elwes as Westley Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride (1987)

2 And does he notice my feelings for him? And will he see how much he means to me? I think it's not to be.

Chris Sarandon as Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

3 Roger, I know all this seems pretty painful now, but you'll find someone new.

Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

4 Maybe it'll help if... You know that in the few hours that we had together... We loved a lifetime's worth.

Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor in The Terminator

5 Did you love her? -With all my heart. Sometimes that just isn't enough.

Clint Eastwood as Bronco Billy in Bronco Billy

6 All dames are alike. They reach down your throat, so they can grab your heart and pull it out, they throw it on the floor and they step on it with their high heels.

Steve Martin as Rigby Reardon in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

7 And you? Why did you choose to love a god? I think you'll find the romance one-sided.

Brad Pitt as Achilles in Troy

8 I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.

Humphrey Bogart as Dix Steele in In a Lonely Place

9 How could Joy be my wife? I'd have to love her, wouldn't I? I'd have to care more for her than for anyone else in this world. I'd have to be suffering the torments of the damned at the prospect of losing her.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

10 What I'm trying to say is that the pain then is part of the happiness now.

Debra Winger as Joy Davidman in Shadowlands