BREAKUP LINES

 

The Best Breakup Lines in Film

 

We searched through film history for 25 of the most memorable goodbye lines. Don’t be too sad, though. This is where some of the best screenwriting really shines.

 

 

Annie Hall

- A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark

 

Breakfast at Tiffany's

- You know what’s wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You’re (a) chicken, you’ve got no guts. You’re afraid to stick out your chin and say, ‘Okay, life’s a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that’s the only chance anybody’s got for real happiness.’ You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you’re terrified somebody’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And  It’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

Casablanca

I’ve got a job to do, too. Where I’m going, you can’t follow. What I’ve got to do, you can’t be any part of. Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that.

Gone with the wind

- Rhett, Rhett… Rhett, if you go, where shall I go?, what shall I do?
- Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

Titanic

- I’d rather be his whore than your wife.

 

Closer

 

- I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye.

Bananas

- You’re immature, Fielding. - How am I immature? - Well, emotionally, sexually, and intellectually. - Yeah, but what other ways? @ In what (other) way(s): How? 

The Social Network
- You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you’re going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won’t be true. It’ll be because you’re an asshole.” (
It’s too late, Diana. There’s nothing left in you that I can live with. If I stay with you, I’ll be destroyed. You’re television incarnate, Diana: Indifferent to suffering; insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. You’re madness, Diana. Virulent madness. And everything you touch dies with you. But not me. Not as long as I can feel pleasure, and pain… and love.” (Network)
Brief encounter

- I do love you, so very much. I love you with all my heart and soul. - I want to die. If only I could die.

Sweet smell of success, 1957
I'd rather be dead than living with you. For all the things you've done, J.J. I know I should hate you. But I don't. I pity you. ()