85 Movie Quotes about Suffering (+ Sound Clips)

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

1 Listen. Do you hear? That is the sound of ultimate suffering.

Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride (1987)

2 I know why you seek solitude. You suffer. I see it day by day. You sure you do not suffer needlessly?

Sean Bean as Boromir in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

3 It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing. Such a little thing.

Sean Bean as Boromir in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

4 And does God want us to suffer? What if the answer to that question is yes? 'Cause I'm not sure that God particularly wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to be able to love and be loved. He wants us to grow up.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

5 Those who suffer a loss require support from friends and loved ones.

Scott Adsit as Baymax in Big Hero 6

6 Your suffering will be short, mine forever.

Peter O’Toole in Supergirl (1984)

7 But you know the best thing about pain? -I don't know! -It lets you know you're not dead yet!

Viggo Mortensen as Master Chief in G.I. Jane

8 Twice in that life, I've been given the choice. As a boy, and as a man. The boy chose safety. The man chooses suffering.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

9 Oh, the pain, the agony, the bunions, the woe, the whoo, the you know who.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

10 We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Anthony Daniels as C 3po in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope