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.

"All her hairSource: Porphyria's Lover | Author: Robert Browning
In one long yellow string I wound
Three times her little throat around"

"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

"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

"For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."Source: The Plague | Author: Albert Camus

"have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it—"Source: Lady Lazarus | Author: Sylvia Plath

"He's leavin'… on that midnight train to Georgia."Source: Midnight Train to Georgia | Speaker: Gladys Knight and the Pips

"Hi, my name is George. I'm unemployed, and I live with my parents."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: George Costanza

"I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man."Source: Notes from the Underground | Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I never want to hear you say, I want it that way."Source: "I Want It That Way" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys

"I was so worried I baked a whole cake. And then I ate a whole cake."Source: Broad City | Speaker: Lincoln Rice

"I'm in a glass case of emotion!"Source: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | Speaker: Ron Burgundy

"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

"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

"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'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 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

"Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try."Source: The Simpsons | Speaker: Homer Simpson

"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"Source: Auntie Mame | Speaker: Mame Dennis

"Long walks at night—that's what good for the soul"Source: And the Moon and the Stars and the World | Author: Charles Bukowski

"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

"Show me the meaning of being lonely"Source: "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" | Speaker: The Backstreet Boys

"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

"Sometimes being stuck inside my own head is so exhausting it makes me want to cry."Source: Girls | Speaker: Marnie Michaels

"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 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 trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him…"Source: Eichmann in Jerusalem | Author: Hannah Arendt

"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

"Tonight I can write the saddest lines"Source: Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines | Author: Pablo Neruda

"What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more than a person."Source: Paper Towns | Author: John Green