Sad Quotes
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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
"Ain't no sunshine when she's gone..."Source: "Ain't No Sunshine" | Speaker: Bill Withers
"All her hairSource: Porphyria's Lover | Author: Robert Browning
In one long yellow string I wound
Three times her little throat around"
"All monsters are human."Source: American Horror Story: Asylum | Speaker: Sister Jude Martin
"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
"And that's the way it is."Source: CBS Evening News | Speaker: Walter Cronkite
"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw"Source: A Smile to Remember | Author: Charles Bukowski
"Any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me. Probably in the last half hour."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath
"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."Source: None. | Speaker: Edward Murphy
"As if!"Source: Clueless | Speaker: Cher Horowitz
"Back and to the left."Source: JFK | Speaker: Jim Garrison
"Because only one thing counts in this life: get them to sign on the line which is dotted."Source: Glengarry Glen Ross | Speaker: Blake
"Belong to any club."Source: Annie Hall | Speaker: Alvy Singer
"Bread makes you fat?"Source: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Speaker: Scott Pilgrim
"Burn!"Source: That '70s Show | Speaker: Kelso
"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 rumour has it he's the one I'm leaving you for."Source: "Rumour Has It" | Speaker: Adele
"But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out."Source: Casey at the Bat | Author: Ernest Lawrence Thayer
"By all means, attribute my legitimate feelings of sadness to menses."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Piper Chapman
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents"Source: Little Women | Author: Louisa May Alcott
"Come to me in the silence of the night."Source: Echo | Author: Christina Rossetti
"Democracy is so overrated."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood
"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?"Source: "Firework" | Speaker: Katy Perry
"Don't bring me down…Bruce!"Source: "Don't Bring Me Down" | Speaker: Electric Light Orchestra
"Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."Source: The Catcher in the Rye | Author: J. D. Salinger
"Earn this. Earn it."Source: Saving Private Ryan | Speaker: Captain James Miller
"For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."Source: The Plague | Author: Albert Camus
"God'll get you for that."Source: Maude | Speaker: Maude Findlay
"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 a good life."Source: Cheers | Speaker: Sam Malone
"have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it—"Source: Lady Lazarus | Author: Sylvia Plath
"He chose poorly."Source: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Speaker: Grail Knight
"He's leavin'… on that midnight train to Georgia."Source: Midnight Train to Georgia | Speaker: Gladys Knight and the Pips
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."Source: The Mourning Bride | Author: William Congreve
"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
"Hi, my name is George. I'm unemployed, and I live with my parents."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: George Costanza
"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 Groot."Source: Guardians of the Galaxy | Speaker: Groot
"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 can't believe I ate that whole thing."Source: Alka-Seltzer commercial | Speaker: Ralph
"I can't live with or without you."Source: "With or Without You" | Speaker: U2
"I coulda been a contender!"Source: On the Waterfront | Speaker: Terry Malloy
"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 gave her my heart and she gave me a pen."Source: Say Anything | Speaker: Lloyd Dobler
"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 know it was you, Fredo."Source: The Godfather, Part II | Speaker: Michael Corleone
"I live in a van down by the river."Source: Saturday Night Live, Motivation | Speaker: Matt Foley
"I love mankind… It's people I can't stand."Source: Peanuts (comic) | Author: Charles M. Schulz
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."Source: Apocalypse Now | Speaker: Bill Kilgore
"I need to know that I'm being heard."Source: The Comeback | Speaker: Valerie Cherish
"I never knew me a better time, and I guess I never will."Source: "Crocodile Rock" | Speaker: Elton John
"I never want to hear you say, I want it that way."Source: "I Want It That Way" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys
"I set fire to the rain."Source: "Set Fire to the Rain" | Speaker: Adele
"I shot the sheriff"Source: I Shot the Sheriff | Speaker: Bob Marley
"I was born a poor black child."Source: The Jerk | Speaker: Navin R. Johnson
"I was so worried I baked a whole cake. And then I ate a whole cake."Source: Broad City | Speaker: Lincoln Rice
"I'm a monster!"Source: Arrested Development | Speaker: Buster Bluth
"I'm in a glass case of emotion!"Source: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | Speaker: Ron Burgundy
"I'm just a fool, a fool in love with you."Source: "Earth Angel" | Speaker: The Penguins
"I'm not even supposed to be here today."Source: Clerks | Speaker: Dante Hicks
"I'm not interested in caring about people."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Ron Swanson
"If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars."Source: War and Peace | Author: Leo Tolstoy
"If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best"Source: Marilyn Monroe | Speaker: Marilyn Monroe
"If you need me, I'll be down here on the floor. Dying."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
"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
"Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine
"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 me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal, and the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down."Source: Scandal | Speaker: Olivia Pope
"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.
"It's this century. It still does perplex me so."Source: American Horror Story: Coven | Speaker: Delphine LaLaurie
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"Source: The Godfather: Part III | Speaker: Michael Corleone
"Keep me hangin' on."Source: "You Keep Me Hangin' On" | Speaker: The Supremes
"Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try."Source: The Simpsons | Speaker: Homer Simpson
"Killing me softly…"Source: "Killing Me Softly With His Song" | Speaker: Roberta Flack
"Let the sky fall. When it crumbles, we will stand tall."Source: "Skyfall" | Speaker: Adele
"Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short."Source: Animal Farm | Author: George Orwell
"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"Source: Auntie Mame | Speaker: Mame Dennis
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Long walks at night—that's what good for the soul"Source: And the Moon and the Stars and the World | Author: Charles Bukowski
"Mamma mia, here I go again. My, my, how can I resist you?"Source: Mamma Mia | Speaker: ABBA
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."Source: Animal Farm | Author: George Orwell
"Mom always liked you best."Source: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour | Speaker: Tommy Smothers
"My mad face and my happy face are the same."Source: True Blood | Speaker: Pam De Beaufort
"Nice guys finish last."Source: Leo Durocher | Speaker: Leo Durocher
"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
"Oh, it's okay. I guess I wasn't meant to have a good life."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
"Oh, there's an empty place in my bones that calls out for something unknown."Source: Jack's Lament | Speaker: Jack Skellington
"Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind."Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: The Phantom
"Right is right, and wrong is wrong."Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain
"Shane! Shane! Come back!"Source: Shane | Speaker: Little Joey
"She doesn't even go here."Source: Mean Girls | Speaker: Damian Leigh
"Show me the meaning of being lonely"Source: "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" | Speaker: The Backstreet Boys
"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away"Source: Television | Author: Roald Dahl
"Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you its only seed."Source: The Rose | Speaker: Bette Midler
"Someday monkey won't play piano song, play piano song."Source: "Michelle" | Speaker: The Beatles
"Sometimes being stuck inside my own head is so exhausting it makes me want to cry."Source: Girls | Speaker: Marnie Michaels
"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 all."Source: The Devil Wears Prada | Speaker: Miranda Priestly
"That's my last Duchess painted on the wallSource: My Last Duchess | Author: Robert Browning
Looking as if she were alive."
"The best thing about human beings is that they stack so neatly."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood
"The calla lilies are in bloom again."Source: Stage Door | Speaker: Terry Randall
"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 dingo took my baby!"Source: A Cry in the Dark | Speaker: Lindy
"The gift of a good liar is making people believe you lack a talent for lying."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood
"The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."Source: Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil | Author: Thomas Hobbes
"The neighbors' dog will not stop barking."Source: Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House | Author: Billy Collins
"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 tribe has spoken."Source: Survivor | Speaker: Jeff Probst
"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him…"Source: Eichmann in Jerusalem | Author: Hannah Arendt
"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
"There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun."Source: "House of the Rising Sun" | Speaker: Unknown
"there's a bluebird in my heart that/ wants to get out/ but I'm too tough for him"Source: Bluebird | Author: Charles Bukowski
"There's no crying in baseball!"Source: A League of Their Own | Speaker: Jimmy Duggan
"They tried to make me go to rehab; I said "no, no, no.""Source: Rehab | Speaker: Amy Winehouse
"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 not one of your more convincing fake showers."Source: Girls | Speaker: Marnie Michaels
"This is the city."Source: Dragnet | Speaker: Sergeant Joe Friday
"This is the people's war!"Source: Mrs. Miniver | Speaker: The Vicar
"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
"Tonight I can write the saddest lines"Source: Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines | Author: Pablo Neruda
"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
"War—huh yeah—what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!"Source: War | Speaker: Edwin Starr
"we are all trapped by a singular fate"Source: Alone with Everybody | Author: Charles Bukowski
"We belong dead."Source: Bride of Frankenstein | Speaker: The Monster
"We can't go on together with suspicious minds."Source: "Suspicious Minds" | Speaker: Elvis Presley
"We'll always have Paris."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine
"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
"What I do have is a particular set of skills."Source: Taken | Speaker: Bryan Mills
"Where are you going in those Keds?"Source: Girls | Speaker: Charlie Dattolo and Ray Ploshansky
"Whether times are good or bad, happy or sad."Source: Let's Stay Together | Speaker: Al 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
"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away."Source: "Yesterday" | Speaker: The Beatles
"You ain't nothing but a hound dog, crying all the time."Source: "Hound Dog" | Speaker: Elvis Presley
"You know what the weirdest part about having a job is?"Source: Girls | Speaker: Jessa Johansson
"You lived your life like a candle in the wind."Source: "Candle in the Wind" | Speaker: Elton John