Amores Perros doesn’t request your attention — it grabs you by the throat and you’d better hang on. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu in 2000, this Mexican epic is Iñárritu’s “Death Trilogy” in all its brutal pomp. And three stories, and a car crash, and a city full of people chasing love, revenge and if not redemption at least what’s left of it.
This isn’t a feel-good film. It is raw, razored and pretty in the most dysfunctional of ways. And the Amores Perros quotes? They’re more than lines — they’re confessions, regrets, philosophies etched into asphalt and heartbreak. Movies like Amores Perros can watched on streaming platforms like Tubi.
Here, the best quotes from Amores Perros that, like a cigarette burn to the soul, hit like a smack in the face.
- El Chivo: “We are what we’ve lost.”
- Octavio: “Let’s run away. Just you, me… and the dog.”
- Valeria: “My life was perfect. Then the crash. And now, nothing fits.”
- El Chivo: “Do we forgive… or do we kill?”
- Octavio: “Sometimes I think dogs are better than people.”
- Ramiro: “You’re always dreaming, Octavio. Wake up. This is real.”
- El Chivo (to his daughter’s photo): “I saw you yesterday. You looked happy. I didn’t say hello.”
- Valeria: “My body healed. But the cracks… the cracks never closed.”
- Octavio: “You’re not supposed to fall in love with your sister-in-law, right?”
- El Chivo: “I’ve killed for money. I’ve abandoned everything. But this? This hurts more.”
- Susana: “You said you’d save me, but I was never drowning. I was already gone.”
- El Chivo (final monologue): “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.”
- Tagline (recurring theme): “We are also what we’ve lost.”
Amores Perros is an endearing film with no easy answers. It’s a movie about love, yes — but tarnished, desperate, bruised love. These Amores Perros quotes illustrate the human wreckage that remains when people follow their natural instincts, rather than healing.
If you’re in search of Iñárritu dialogue, foreboding poetic lines, or simply the kind of quotes that linger after the screen goes dark — well this is the list.
