20 Saddest Lines And Passages From Books

History has shown us so many things through the books we read and the stories people tell. Some of them are true. A lot of them aren't. But no matter where these words come from, they can still affect us allñespecially when an author manages to connect with readers on a deeper level.

Most of the time, we read to entertain ourselves. But when we do choose an extraordinary book, story, or poem, we are pleasantly surprised to be taken in by the beauty of the stories, the personalities of the characters, and the lines that surpass time. Some of these lines are quite uplifting, while some can leave us in a state of despair. Some books don't have happy endings, and that's what makes the pain all the more real.

But we also experience pain in our daily lives. The most significant one is heartbreak. Our hearts break when we lose someone, when someone hurts us, and even when we bid loved ones farewell. Sometimes, however, we can't put our feelings together. It could be that we can't handle the pain, or we just don't know what's happening with our emotions.

# 'I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.' John Green, Looking for Alaska

# 'Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.' J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

# 'If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?' Jodi Picoult, 19 Minutes

# 'The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.' Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

# 'I was too young to know how to love her.' Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

# 'Rudy, please, wake up. Goddamn it, wake up, I love you. Come on, Rudy, come on, Jesse Owens, don't you know I love you? Wake up, wake up, wake up ' Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

# 'Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.' Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

# 'The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves, until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.' Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

# 'When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows, and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers.' John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

# 'I love you, too, but my time with you has passed.' Garth Nix, Abhorsen

# All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

# 'Don't go where I can't follow!' J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers


# 'The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.' Jerry Spinelli, Star Girl

# 'Sometimes, we give the best of our hearts uncritically to those who hardly think of us in return.' T.H. White, The Once and Future King

# 'Indeed why should I not admit it? in that moment, my heart was breaking.' Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

# 'If I said I was madly in love with you, you'd know I was lying.' Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

# 'You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope.' Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

# 'There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.' Georgette Heyer, Venetia

# 'When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same?' Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

# 'The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.' Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook