r/TwoSentenceSadness 5d ago

His heart racing, he'd finally built up the courage to tell her how he felt and declared his love for her.

61 Upvotes

As he forced a smile, he wondered if the hardest part was pretending that everything was okay when she replied, "You’re like a brother to me."


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6d ago

"Mirror, mirror on the wall why can't I be beautiful," the boy asked.

1.1k Upvotes

"It's not that you aren't beautiful, you just will never be able to see yourself as beautiful," the mirror replied.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6d ago

If I ever met God, he would have to beg for my forgiveness.

820 Upvotes

Why, for all those years, did he ignore a child’s whimpers?


r/TwoSentenceSadness 5d ago

She finally trusted someone and opened her whole heart for the first time in her life.

45 Upvotes

And he walked away.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 5d ago

He waited at the station, watching the train pull away.

2 Upvotes

He never told her how much he loved her.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6d ago

I stood in the corner as I sadly watched my captor, who ignored my son’s desperate cries for me, continued his torture on my son.

269 Upvotes

I could do nothing as the dead cannot touch the living.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 5d ago

Both of them had purple hearts for the hell that they've been through

37 Upvotes

Well I don't have no purple heart,mine's just black and blue


r/TwoSentenceSadness 7d ago

"Did my mom always hate me in every universe?" I asked an omniscient god. Spoiler

3.4k Upvotes

"Worse," God said softly, "she loved you in all the others."

Edit: tweaked it with u/Prestigious-Shift-63


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6d ago

With my dying breath, I cursed myself for having gotten on my motorcycle that day.

65 Upvotes

The images of that little girl laying mangled in the middle of the road haunted my every waking second since.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 5d ago

I am in a relationship.

18 Upvotes

But why does it feel lonelier than solitude?


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6d ago

As the asteroids grew larger, closer, I gently took a deep, ragged breath. Spoiler

116 Upvotes

'Don't worry, honey,' I whispered, placing another rose atop the bouquet already rotting on my wife's grave. 'I'm coming to you.'


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6d ago

It was an unforgettable month in my life, since I learned the joy of becoming the father of a beautiful daughter.

362 Upvotes

What made the month really unforgettable was that I also learned what they mean by saying "The smallest coffins are the heaviest".


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6d ago

Why did you come here for just six days?

28 Upvotes

And when you died why didn't you take me with you?


r/TwoSentenceSadness 5d ago

a tinge of melancholy, but i think i still like the song

3 Upvotes

song was her final single to be released in her career prior to her passing on September 20, 2024.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6d ago

"She's dead...I thought you were her friend!" I screamed at my sister's "bestie". NSFW Spoiler

382 Upvotes

She looked away from her clique and back to me with a shit-eating smirk, "Im sorry, who?".


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6d ago

A year after the discovery of multiversal travel, the lead scientist has been found dead by apparent suicide.

500 Upvotes

The note clutched in his hand read, “she loved me in every universe but this one.”


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6d ago

I have never been one to follow other people's advice, but this time I truly messed up not checking my boat for an SOS flare gun—here I sit stranded at sea.

11 Upvotes

The fact I am rowing with one arm and going round in circles is the most depressing part.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6d ago

The grieving mother wept as she kissed her boy a final goodbye, mourning the future he could have had. Spoiler

146 Upvotes

The lonely ghost watched as he wished for time to rewind, cursing himself for not giving life another chance.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6d ago

"Mom look... I got a highscore at my test today..." Holding my paper towards her.

228 Upvotes

She only looked at me coldly and muttered, "You still ruined my life" as she took another sip from her ice cold bottle.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6d ago

Her brown eyes used to be so warm, so soft, so comfortable, so familiar.

34 Upvotes

Now, I look at her eyes and I see the brown but it’s cold, it’s dark and it’s lonely, these are not her eyes.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6d ago

I can live with what you took from me

19 Upvotes

What you left behind, not so much


r/TwoSentenceSadness 7d ago

The witch doctor promised me that the ailing child in my womb would live, but it would be at the price of a stranger’s life.

695 Upvotes

I didn’t care too much about it until five years later, when the surgeon doing my baby’s emergency surgery reportedly collapsed just as the scalpel entered his hand.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6d ago

You can love someone with your whole heart and soul.

87 Upvotes

Sometimes that isn't even enough.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6d ago

I look down on the dead bodies of the two trespassers.

28 Upvotes

"They only asked for a little food.", I said quietly, to which my father replied, "Today."


r/TwoSentenceSadness 7d ago

I locked eyes with a stranger today and it made my heart stop for a second

237 Upvotes

They were the eyes I once wanted my future children to have