"I Can't Beat It": 17 Movie Lines That Never Fail To Make Audience Members Dissolve Into A Weepy Mess

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From pre-tragic-sacrifice one-liners to philosophical and emotional revelations, it often takes only a single line of dialogue to get the tears a'flowin' in theaters. So there were thousands of excellent (read: heartbreaking) submissions when redditor u/Andrewreddy asked the movie buffs of r/movies, "In your opinion, what is the saddest line in a movie?" Here are 17 of their suggestions.

And here's an obligatory spoiler warning! 

1.In Her, when Theodore confides in his virtual assistant, Samantha.

"Sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I'm not gonna feel anything new, just lesser versions of what I've already felt."

2.When Joe confessed his existential fears about his life to his mother in Soul.

"I"m just afraid that if I died today, that my life would have amounted to nothing"

3.When Lee admitted to Patrick that he couldn't overcome his traumatic past in Manchester by the Sea.

'I can't beat it"

4.When Mr. Anderson gave Charlie this all-time classic piece of young adult fiction advice in The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

"we accept the love we think we deserve"

5.In Boyhood, when Olivia told her son that sending him to college made her afraid that her life was practically over.

"I just thought there would be more"

6.When Randall says this to his friends and family while they wait for the apocalypse in Don't Look Up.

"The thing of it is...we, we really...we really did have everything, didn't we? I mean, when you think about it."

7.When Killmonger had only this to say upon his defeat in Black Panther.

"Just bury me in the ocean, with my ancestors that jumped from ships, because they knew death was better than bondage."

8.When Gordie doesn't speak, but writes, the final heartbreaking lines of Stand By Me.

The end monologue ends and cuts to a computer screen with text, "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"

9.When Waymond wistfully said this to Evelyn in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

"So, even though you broke my heart yet again, I wanted to say, in another life I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you."

10.When Boromir said this as he was dying in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

"I would've followed you, my brother. my captain. my king"

11.When Del made an emotional confession to Neal in Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

"I don't have a home. Marie's beed dead for eight years"

12.When the Iron Giant sacrificed himself in The Iron Giant.

"You stay. I go. No following"

13.When Setsuko, on the verge of death, offers her beloved brother, Seita, "rice balls" in Grave of the Fireflies.

"Rice balls. I made them for you. Here...have one"

14.When Jack and Ennis fought in Brokeback Mountain.

"I wish I knew how to quit you." The other responds, "Then why don't you? Why don't you just let me be, huh?"

15.In The Princess Bride, when Inigo Montoya summed up his life's mission in four words: "I love my father."

"without a word, the six-fingered man slashed him through his heart. I love my father so naturally i challenge his murderer to a duel"

16.When Lady Bird found her friend Julie crying and Julie explained it by saying this in Lady Bird.

"Some people aren't built happy, you know?"

17.And finally: When Stoick reunited with his long-lost wife, Valka, in How to Train Your Dragon 2.

"You're as beautiful as the day I lost you"

When you read the phrase "emotionally devastating," which lines from television or film come to mind? Tell us about them in the comments!

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