What is the saddest line you've ever read in a book?

[madiglancy]

Were all saps for good books. Especially the ones that get your eyes wet and tugs your heart strings. What is the saddest line in a book that you have read??

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[ALynnPowers]

The end

NOOOOOOOO!!! I was going to say that! YOU STOLE MY AWESOME!

-- 29 Jul 2016, 22:57 --

Oh wait. I never had any awesome, did I?

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To be continued.

[lily_kh87]

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

[DATo]

The final sentence of Middlemarch by George Eliot:

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Eliot was a proponent of social reform which benefited the lower classes. Both her work and Dickens (who wrote about the same time) awakened the public to much needed social change. I have always found it ironic that this final sentence could be applied to Eliot herself.

[Carrie R]

Maybe the last two lines in A Tale of Two Cities. But they were also powerful and meaningful lines, so maybe that makes them less sad?

[Naqvee]

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”


― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

[AMagnificentAmberson]

“How many fingers, Winston?”

“Four. I suppose there are four. I would see five if I could. I’m trying to see five.”

“Which do you wish: to persuade me that you see five, or really to see them?”

“Really to see them.”

1984 - George Orwell

[DiverseSpirit]

"And the great White Whale sped away." -Moby Dick by Herman Melville: Great Illustrated Classics

This line was written after the death of Captain Ahab.

[seeker19]

"Hi I'm June."

This was the last line in the last book of the legend series by Marie lu, Champion. It was just filled with so much pain and sadness and hope...it was a really heart wrenching and beautiful ending. The fact that I still remember the line and the emotion behind it is telling to how much angst is filled just in those simple words.