23 Synesthesia Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jul 10, 2025

A selection of synesthesia quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

1 I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

Alec Guinness as Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

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

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

3 His sword is a cane that tastes like crab cake.

Antonio Banderas as Puss In Boots in Shrek the Halls

4 Roaming the streets and shores of my young manhood... Soaking myself in nostalgia. -I know. I can smell it!

Quote from Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

5 I want to go back. I smell death here.

Kira The Gelfling in The Dark Crystal (1982)

6 If he became a flavor, you can bet he would be sour.

Quote from The Muppet Christmas Carol

7 You smell like beef and cheese. You don't smell like Santa.

Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf in Elf (2003)

8 That is the sound of inevitability. It is the sound of your death.

Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith in The Matrix

9 I smell... a stingy little Englishman! I think I do. Yeah, I do.

Quote from Mickey Mouse

10 But this... this sound wasn't sad. Why, this sound sounded glad.

Boris Karloff as The Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)