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Disappointment Disgust, dislike Sadness

Pourquoi la vie est-elle une telle saloperie ?

Schlesinger, Christie
Darling (1965)

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Love Sadness

It hurts me when I don’t see you for such a long time

Gallo
The Brown Bunny (2003)

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Disappointment Refusal Sadness

It’s been kind of a discouraging evening

Ang Lee
The Ice Storm (1997)

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Disappointment Refusal Sadness

It’s hopeless

Bresson, Labourdette
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)

Categories
Disappointment Sadness Surprise, wonder

Je n’avais jamais été malheureux auparavant

Tourneur
Cat People (1942)

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Get well soon, health Loneliness Sadness

Leave me alone, I’ll be all right

Chaffey, Attenborough
The Man Upstairs (1958)

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Loneliness Love Sadness

J’ai perdu ma compagne Et toi ton compagnon

Eastwood
Honkytonk Man (1982)

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Sadness Shame, guilt

If I could dig a hole and hide in it, I would

“Si je pouvais creuser un trou par terre pour que personne me verra, je le ferais”

(See also)

Godard, Seberg
À bout de souffle (1960)

Categories
Sadness Surprise, wonder

Funny how love songs are always sad

Carné, Montand
Les Portes de la nuit (1946)

Categories
Sadness Surprise, wonder

Quelle est cette larme ?

Cohen, Ferrell
Holmes & Watson (2018)

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Sadness

Ses larmes coulaient comme une rivière

And her tears flowed like wine
Yes, her tears flowed like wine
She’s a real sad tomato
She’s a busted Valentine
Knows her mama done told her
That her man is darned unkind

(And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine, lyrics by Joe Greene, music by Stan Kenton and Charles Lawrence, 1944)

Hawks, Bacall
The Big Sleep (1946)

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Sadness

Ça me rend vraiment triste

The Dancin’ Kid: All of a sudden, I don’t like you, mister.

Johnny Guitar: Now that makes me real sad. I always hate to lose a friend.

Ray, Crawford, Hayden
Johnny Guitar (1954)

Categories
Boredom Get well soon, health Sadness

Bien triste sort que de s’adonner à ses vices par procuration

Nice  state of affair, a man who has to indulge his vices by proxy

Hawks, Bogart
The Big Sleep (1946)

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Get well soon, health Sadness

I feel lousy… Like I have no future

Pialat, Marceau, Depardieu
Police (1985)

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Inspirational, advice Love Sadness Split ups

Quand un feu s’éteint, il ne reste que des cendres

Ray, Crawford, Hayden
Johnny Guitar (1954)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Disappointment Sadness

Le monde est une loterie

Ray, Mitchum, Hayward
The Lusty Men (1952)

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Sadness

Destiny is tragic

Bresson, Labourdette
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)

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Get well soon, health Sadness

If an Apache cannot live where his forefathers did, he is already dead

(More Apaches)

Aldrich, Lancaster
Apache (1954)

Categories
Loneliness Sadness

Being alone in the dark is sad

Rohmer Poupaud, Langlet
Conte d’été (1996)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Get well soon, health Hope, desire Love Sadness Split ups

Je l’aime toujours mais je sais que ça passera…

Visconti, Mastroianni, Schell
Le notti bianche (1957)

Categories
Birthday, aging Disappointment Excuses, justification Sadness

Moi, je ne suis plus qu’un vieillard qu’on n’écoute plus

Lloyd
Blood on the Sun (1971)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Get well soon, health Inspirational, advice Sadness

Allez-y, pleurez dans votre bière

Eastwood
Bronco Billy (1980)

Categories
Disappointment Excuses, justification Sadness

Ce n’est pas le whisky. C’est la vérité

Ford, Widmark
Two Rode Together (1961)

Categories
Hope, desire Love Sadness

Sois amoureux de moi

Minnelli, Sinatra, MacLaine
Some Came Running (1958)

Categories
Loneliness Sadness

Une femme peut pas comprendre

Ray, Mitchum, Hayward
The Lusty Men (1952)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Love Sadness

He used to be a big shot

Walsh, Cagney, George
The Roaring Twenties (1939)

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Goodbyes Sadness

We’ll never see each other again

“Nous ne nous reverrons plus”

Juliette Gréco (7 février 1927 – 23 septembre 2020)

Melville, Gréco
Quand tu liras cette lettre (1953)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Sadness

I need a real vacation

Rohmer
Le Rayon vert (1986)

Categories
Sadness Split ups

Why do men exist?

Godard, Detmers
Prénom Carmen (1983)

Categories
Disappointment Love Sadness Split ups

Pourquoi se croit-on obligé d’aimer ?

Why do people have to love people, anyway?

Wilder, MacLaine
The Apartment (1960)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Sadness

By the time we learn to live it is already too late

(more baths)

Le temps d’apprendre à vivre, il est déjà trop tard

Que pleurent dans la nuit nos cœurs à l’unisson

Ce qu’il faut de malheur pour la moindre chanson

Ce qu’il faut de regrets pour payer un frisson

Ce qu’il faut de sanglots pour un air de guitare

Louis Aragon, « Il n’y a pas d’amour heureux » (1943)

Hamer
1001 Grams (2014)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Sadness

As long as despair exists, you’re not happy

Tant que la misère existe, vous n’êtes pas riches.

Tant que la détresse existe, vous n’êtes pas heureux.

Tant que les prisons existent, vous n’êtes pas libres.

(voix off d’Yves Montand)

Voir transcription

Marker
Le Joli Mai (1963)

Categories
Sadness Shame, guilt

So many honest girls become dishonest women

Bresson, Labourdette
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne (1945)

Categories
Goodbyes Sadness

Je suis triste de partir

I hate to see you go

Potter, Astaire, Goddard
Second Chorus (1940)

Categories
Goodbyes Sadness

I feel all dead inside

Hathaway, Ball
The Dark Corner (1946)

Categories
Sadness

I can’t run, I can’t live, I can’t die

Sjöberg, Björk
Miss Julie (1951)

Categories
Sadness

And once I’m down, I long to go down even deeper

Sjöberg, Björk
Miss Julie (1951)

Categories
Loneliness Sadness

I feel so alone, so undecided about everything, so helpless

Robinson, Foch
Illegal (1955)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Sadness

Crying will make your eyes hurt more

Farrell, Weisz
The Lobster (2015)

Categories
Disappointment Sadness

Wel I’m not happy because I’m not alive in the present

Godard, Méril
Une femme mariée (2011)

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Happiness, satisfaction Inspirational, advice Sadness Wedding, marriage

I smile and I smile and I smile

Von Trier, Dunst
Melancolia (2011)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Inspirational, advice Pain Sadness

Then you live with it

Eastwood
High Plains Drifter (1973)

Categories
Disappointment Sadness Split ups

I’m sorry I met you. — It’s all the same

Resnais, Rich
Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968)

Categories
Disappointment Refusal Sadness

I’m fed up

Godard, Goya
Masculin féminin (1966)

Categories
Get well soon, health Sadness Stress, worry Surprise, wonder

This is calamity

Iannucci, Buscemi
The Death of Staline (2017)

Categories
Birthday, aging Sadness

Every sunset upsets me because another day has gone by

(More friction)

Salvatores
Mediterraneo (1991)

Categories
Sadness

Mais promettez-moi d’attendre que je sois ivre pour me ramener

    (Holly Golightly 🙂 “Promise me one thing: don’t take me home until I’m drunk.”

Edwards, Heppard, Audrey Hepburn
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

Categories
Refusal Sadness Wedding, marriage

Oh, Louis, I don’t want to marry Lionel!

Price
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Categories
Sadness Surprise, wonder

Why does everyone look so sad, somber?

Godard, Karina
Alphaville (1965)

Categories
Boredom Disappointment Sadness

I’m not thinking about anything

Je pense à rien

Godard, Seberg
À bout de souffle (1960)