What is the saddest monologue you ever heard?

Answer 1

There are two from the show "Quilters" that I find very sad. The first one, the woman tells about how her husband worked on the railroad and there was an accident and they brought him home in a basket. The other is about a woman who couldn't have children. She tells about getting engaged to a man who said he didn't care that she was barren. Then suddenly he changed his mind and called off the wedding.

Both are very powerful monologues.

Answer 2

Four Weddings and a Funeral, Matthew's eulogy, which was written by WH Auden:

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

Answer 3

The Lou Gehrig farewell speech mentioned by another answerer is very moving, even if you know nothing about baseball. In Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," the character Birdie has a touching monologue about why she drinks and why no one takes her seriously. The greatest sad monologue, though, is Linda Loman's final speech at the end of "Death of a Salesman," where she keeps repeating "we're free..." For that matter, Blanche DuBois describing her past in "Streetcar Named Desire" is depressing.

Answer 4

A monologue about this guy in New York gay-bashing. It's soooo sad. You just want to lay your head down and cry.

Answer 5

okay dude, your gonna think this is stupid, especially commin from me... But check out the ending of Rambo: First Blood, when John Rambo has his monologue in front of the colonel in the gas station. He starts freakin out and cryin and talkin about vietnam and how his life is now as a verteran and outcast...

Answer 6

From the movie Steel Magnolias

Answer 7

Lou Gehrig saying that he's the luckiest man alive.

Answer 8

From the play "Night, Mother". It's so sad. Jessie is telling her mom about how she wants to commit suicide.

Answer 9

This one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgmCBKPHnSY