Sad Quotes
Better stock up on tissues. This one's a doozy.
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Sometimes you’ve just got to cry it out... or make a classic quote about your pain like these folks did. Click on any sad quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even YOU turned from me in disgust?"Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley
"All her hairSource: Porphyria's Lover | Author: Robert Browning
In one long yellow string I wound
Three times her little throat around"
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."Source: Blade Runner | Speaker: Roy Batty
"And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand"Source: A Dream within a Dream | Author: Edgar Allan Poe
"And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Because only one thing counts in this life: get them to sign on the line which is dotted."Source: Glengarry Glen Ross | Speaker: Blake
"But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it."Source: Introduction to Poetry | Author: Billy Collins
"But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out."Source: Casey at the Bat | Author: Ernest Lawrence Thayer
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents"Source: Little Women | Author: Louisa May Alcott
"Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."Source: The Catcher in the Rye | Author: J. D. Salinger
"For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."Source: The Plague | Author: Albert Camus
"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world"Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."Source: Anna Karenina | Author: Leo Tolstoy
"have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it—"Source: Lady Lazarus | Author: Sylvia Plath
"Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone."Source: "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" | Speaker: Pink Floyd
"Hey, Dr. Jones. No time for love!"Source: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Speaker: Short Round
"Hitler didn't snub me—it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram."Source: A Republican Rally in Baltimore, Maryland | Speaker: Jesse Owens
"How dreary — to be — Somebody!Source: I'm Nobody! Who are you? | Author: Emily Dickinson
How public — like a Frog —"
"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain
"I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man."Source: Notes from the Underground | Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."Source: The Remarkable Rocket | Author: Oscar Wilde
"I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am."Source: Green Eggs and Ham | Author: Dr. Seuss
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."Source: A Streetcar Named Desire | Author: Tennessee Williams
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged."Source: Shawshank Redemption | Speaker: Red
"I heard a Fly buzz — when I died"Source: I heard a Fly buzz — when I died | Author: Emily Dickinson
"I never knew me a better time, and I guess I never will."Source: "Crocodile Rock" | Speaker: Elton John
"If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars."Source: War and Peace | Author: Leo Tolstoy
"If you'd have been there, if you'd have seen it, I betcha you would have done the same!"Source: "Cell Block Tango" | Speaker: Prison Girls
"In the beginning there was faith—which is childish; trust—which is vain; and illusion—which is dangerous."Source: Night | Author: Elie Wiesel
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Author: J. K. Rowling
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."Source: A Tale of Two Cities | Author: Charles Dickens
"It's the end of the world as we know it"Source: "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" | Speaker: R.E.M.
"Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short."Source: Animal Farm | Author: George Orwell
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."Source: Animal Farm | Author: George Orwell
"No, Lennie, I ain't mad. I never been mad, and I ain' now. That's a thing I want ya to know."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?"Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"Right is right, and wrong is wrong."Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain
"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away"Source: Television | Author: Roald Dahl
"That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it."Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain
"That's my last Duchess painted on the wallSource: My Last Duchess | Author: Robert Browning
Looking as if she were alive."
"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."Source: The Red Badge of Courage | Author: Stephen Crane
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."Source: On the Road | Author: Jack Kerouac
"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."Source: A Farewell to Arms | Author: Ernest Hemingway
"The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair"Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper."Source: The Hollow Men | Author: T.S. Eliot
"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."Source: In Memoriam | Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."Source: The Pride of the Yankees | Speaker: Lou Gehrig
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."Source: The Lorax | Author: Dr. Seuss
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"We can't go on together with suspicious minds."Source: "Suspicious Minds" | Speaker: Elvis Presley
"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year."Source: "Wish You Were Here" | Speaker: Pink Floyd
"What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more than a person."Source: Paper Towns | Author: John Green
"Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?"Source: "What's Love Got to Do With It?" | Speaker: Tina Turner
"Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it."Source: Jeremiah 10:19 | Author: Jeremiah
"You ain't nothing but a hound dog, crying all the time."Source: "Hound Dog" | Speaker: Elvis Presley