We all have to trudge through the darker aspects of existence.
Read these sad stories because theyre beautiful, and because they reflect real life.
18 Two-Sentence Sad Stories FromReddit
Language is a wonderful medium.
In just two carefully crafted sentences, you might tug at a persons heart strings.
In the below sad stories, so much emotion is conveyed with so few words.
Brace yourself and read onif you have the strength.
I found the love of my life.She didnt.
He promised he would wait for her forever.She kept him to his word.
It was a lot.It just wasnt enough.
He woke up, rolled over, and reached for her.She wasnt there, and never would be again.
They told me they could save either my wife or my son.They were wrong.
My owner wont wake up.My food bowl has been empty for so long.
I rock my baby in my arms and sing softly to her.It helps me pretend she is only sleeping.
I became an EMT to save peoples lives.Twenty minutes of CPR on my dad proved that was a lie.
The heart monitor chimed its final tune.Come the end there was no applause.
I told her she would be okay.That was the first lie I ever told.
Hes not coming, is he?
9 months of excitement came to an end.She never cried.
I kept the ultrasound.Someone I never met.
Mommy promised her the monsters werent real.But mommy didnt know that daddy was the monster.
Valentines Day is rooted in violence and loss.
The punishment of the innocent.
V-Days always had love notes and flowers.
Yes, its creepy.
But its also a tragic love story.
Perhaps one of the greatest ever written.
His final actto kill a man who has taken advantage of his now-grown Lolitais both satisfying and ironic.
The story ends as youd imagine: in complete ruination of everyone involved.
Skip the moviedespite Carrie Mulligan and Kiera Knightley.
Ishiguros sleight of hand will astonish you, and 100 pages in youll feel your stomach drop.
Then youll fly to the end.
This novel will crush you.
And the pleasure of that pain will make you want to read it again.
I readGiovannis Roomfor a literature class in college.
He understands pain, forces his reader to feel every last ounce of it along with the characters.
Its an intense, fearless love story involving three different people.
Youll fall in love with all of them.
Scandals in New York lead to scandals in Europe.
Millions are lost and gained.
Yacht trips are taken.
This is Gatsby before F Scott.
The moral vacuum of the Manhattanite elite before Wolfe was born to write it.
Eventually Lilly has her moral awakening.
And the man of her dreams realizes he loves her as she him.
This novel, likeDrownandThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, features our favorite reckless bad boy, Yunior.
My favorite line: And thats when I know its over.
As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, its the end.
So keep that pile of tissues close.
This is a book in which nothing happens.
And thats why its magic.
Reading it forces you to climb deep inside the castle of your own insecurities.
Pristine in every way, wealthy beyond belief, Millys flaws number only one: she is dying.
you’re free to guess the plan: Densher will trick Milly into thinking he loves her.
Densher will inherit her cash and then hell marry Kate.
The brilliant plan failed to account for one detail: Millys unshakeable kindness, her unflappable spirit.
Few novels ask the reader more directly to imagine which theyd choose: money or love.
I know,The Bell Jarisnt your typical lovey-dovey, romance novelits way beyond that.
This novel is the closest well ever get to the true Sylvia Plath.
Instead, she was locked away in a psych ward, essentially pushed into her insanity.
Its a deep exploration into forbidden love, scandal, and leaving a beloved and magical place behind.
Words are powerful, and they can help us heal broken hearts and broken spirits.
Here are some of the best Thought Catalog articles for a good cry.
So youll end it because you know its for the best, its the right thing to do.
You will not blame them.
You will be the first to call off the relationship.
You hold your sibling when they cry, or you give a shot to.
You learn not to cry when they pull your hair on a long car ride.
You stop comparing yourself to them.
Johnny says that with the way Bucky was treated, its a miracle he never became a serial killer.
But he says Bucky never acted bitter, mean, or violent.
She will shy away from discussing problems.
She tiptoes when you wish she would just walk.
She is flight when you would have been sure shed fight.
You get too close, things get too real, and she runs.
She has tennis shoes on stand by.
No, this sadness would be for desperate people.
Even on the days you feel numb inside from the performance of it all.
And then maybe cry some more.
My cheap new shirt was still in my backpack; suddenly it seemed very cheap and very new.
I thought about my ex-lover, who now had a movie coming out.
How does she do it?
To be hot is to be everything.
To be hot is to be afforded the luxury of having not be anything else.
Female hotness is the ultimate aspiration.
But, you know, I think I could be hot.
I could devote my life to being hot.
I closed my eyes, tried to quiet the rest of the world.
I took a deep breath.
I saw your smile.
The gap in between your two front teeth, just like mine.
The reason I wont allow the cosmetic surgeon to touch it.
This imperfection in my smile that reminds me of you.
But I couldnt hear your laugh.
No matter how hard I tried, I couldnt hear it, Dad.
I tried, Ireallydid.
I feel like its not so much to ask that I just hear it once more.
To deny that, is simply to deny ones humanity.
