31 Movie Quotes about Young Deaths (Sound Clips) - page 2

Last updated on: August 23, 2025

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

11 If I die in a combat zone. Box me up and ship me home. Pin my medals upon my chest. Tell my mom I done my best.

Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket

12 I can't see the reason such fine young men get killed. There are so many battles yet to fight.

George C. Scott as General George Patton in Patton (1970)

13 Aren't you going to do anything for that boy? He may be dying. -If so, he is very fortunate. Life, even at its best, is hardly endurable.

Quote from The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

14 It ain't cool to die at 27. I'm not gonna let you do that to yourself. And I'm not gonna let you do it to me.

Richard Pryor as Sugar Ray in Harlem Nights

15 This was a good boy. He'd have been a good man. Didn't get his chance.

John Wayne as Wil Andersen in The Cowboys (1972)

16 Yes. Poor girl. To have died so young without ever having experienced me.

Miles Gloriosus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

17 Hmm. Now I'm ten years older and she's still 13, I guess. That's funny.

Julie Delpy as Céline in Before Sunrise

18 They were so young, but long before you knew what death was, you were wishing it on someone else.

Quote from X Minus One

19 Oh, nonsense. Living, she'd just have got old and fat. But like this she'll stay young and beautiful for ever.

Fenella Fielding as Valeria Watt in Carry On Screaming!

20 He never grew up. The world grew up around him, that's all. And buried him.

Alida Valli as Anna Schmidt in The Third Man (1949)