The saddest quotes in Silent Hill Games

Key things

• The existential and nihilistic themes in Silent Hill lead to mysterious and profound quotes from tortured characters.
• The saddest quotes from Silent Hill focus on abuse, despair and loneliness and evoke intense emotions.
• Unforgettable and stressful quotes highlight the characters' traumas and inner struggles.

The Silent Hill the series is full of mature themes, so there are plenty of heart-wrenching moments that have spawned countless memorable quotes, especially very sad, thought-provoking lines from some of the series' most tortured characters. Like philosophy Silent Hill the games revolve around existentialism and nihilism, many quotes from the games are cryptic and symbolic. Some are more prominent, while others are more ambiguous phrases.

Much Silent Hill the quotes are about abuse, despair, loneliness and anxiety, which makes them incredibly depressing. Silent Hill is known for evoking strong emotions with its harrowing material, but while it's easy to quote the entire franchise for meaningful lines, some quotes just stood out more than others, especially because they hint at troubling circumstances. Here they are saddest quotes from Silent Hill (of which most come from Silent Hill 2unsurprisingly).

8 “Do you see it too? To me… it's always like this.”

Angela Orosco talks to James Sunderland

In the final confrontation between James and Angela v Silent Hill 2they reunite at the Lakeview Hotel, which is on fire inside. They have an interaction where Angela mistakes James for her mother, signaling that she is hallucinating and having a mental breakdown. Angela thanks James for saving her, but tells him he shouldn't have bothered. She asks him for her knife back, perhaps intending to use it as a means of suicide, but James refuses.

Angela turns and starts up the stairs, whereupon James says, “It's hot as hell in here.” Angela replies, “You see that too? With me… it's always like this,” perhaps implying that her debilitating mental illness makes her entire life feel like one burning 'Hell'. This phrase perfectly describes how depression can negatively affect a person's perspective and make them feel hopeless.

7 “There was a hole. It's gone now.”

Found On Neely's Bar Window

James Sunderland may come across Neely's Bar on the corner of Neely and Sanders Silent Hill 2. At Neely's, James takes a step closer to the key to the apartment gate. There will also be a scrawled message on the window: “Here was the hole. It's gone.” While the quote itself doesn't evoke any particular emotion, it's its implications that create some unsettling subtext.

This can be interpreted in a number of ways, but one theory is that James is an alcoholic (which is hinted at when he examines some beer bottles) and drinking “fills the void/hole” so “there was a hole but it's gone . .” It is also significant that the message is scrawled on the bar to further support this theory. There is also the possibility of a quote referring to an actual hole that in Silent Hill lore, it indicates a passage to the Otherworld, so at one point there was a passage to the Otherworld from Neely's, but it is no longer there.

6 “Beat me like you always do!”

Angela Orosco talks to James Sunderland

When Angela encounters Abstract Daddy Silent Hill 2he gets revenge for the physical manifestation of his childhood trauma/abuse by getting some serious kicks and then smashing him over the head with the television. Abstract Daddy also serves as an abstract form of James' memories, specifically those of Mary.

James comes to check on her, but Angela turns on him and misinterprets his intentions as an attempt to sexually assault her. She compares James to her father, saying he might “force her” or “beat her [her] awake as always.” This whole scene is the first in-depth look at Angela's complicated history and responses to trauma, but admitting that her family not only sexually but physically abused her is truly horrifying and would make anyone sympathize with Angela.

5 “It's okay. No one's going to cry over my grave anyway.”

Spoken by Douglas Cartland to Heather Mason

In Daisy Villa Apartments v Silent Hill 3Douglas discovers Harry Mason's dead body, much to Heather's dismay. Douglas has a change of heart here, despite his reluctance to turn against Claudia, and agrees to take Heather to Silent Hill to avenge Harry's death.

When Heather informs Douglas of the dangers that await them, specifically once Claudia learns of his betrayal, he replies, “It's okay. No one's going to cry over my grave anyway.” Heather is able to kill Douglas in the “Possessed” ending, which only makes the quote even sadder considering Douglas tells Heather that he reminds her of his late son. It is clear that Douglas is a lone wolf with no family, so he is not afraid of death.

4 “Thank you for saving me… But I wish you hadn't. Even my mom said that – I deserved what happened.”

Angela Orosco talks to James Sunderland

It's quite heartbreaking to know that Angela keeps saying some of them saddest quotes ever Silent Hill franchisealthough he only appeared in one game. In the same flaming staircase scene from earlier, she makes another unmistakably disturbing quote regarding her childhood. She thanks James for saving her, but tells him she didn't need to bother because her mother said she deserved all the abuse she got.

What I mean by all this is that not only did Angela suffer abuse from her father and brother, but her mother did not actively try to stop it, even going so far as to say that Angela's abuse was her own doing. Angela's story v Silent Hill 2 is extremely harrowing and a fantastic interpretation of the fight or flight of an abuse victim against the world around her – a world in which Angela feels she does not belong.

3 “Joy died with you. All that remains is despair and a future of meaningless tomorrows.”

Written On A Tombstone In Born Of A Wish

Silent Hill 2side story — Born of a wish — follows Maria, whom James Sunderland meets in Rosewater Park and meets again sporadically. When Maria finds the red and black plates outside in the secret garden, there is a grave nearby. Maria can find the secret garden by climbing the ladder inside the fireplace in the mansion's living room.

If he examines the grave, he can find a square depression in the center of the tombstone and an epitaph that reads: “Joy died with you. Only despair remains and a future of meaningless tomorrows.” The grave is believed to belong to Earnest Baldwin's late daughter, Amy, as he compares her to all the joy in the world that is gone now that she has died.

2 “James, if that was true, then why do you look so sad?

Spoken by Mary Shepherd-Sunderland to James Sunderland

Silent Hill 2 landed a final twist when it was revealed that James Sunderland had killed his own wife by suffocating her with a pillow, then convinced himself that she had simply died of her debilitating illness. He began to tell himself that Mary had died under unforeseen circumstances and that there was nothing he could do. As James sits by Mary's bedside during their final talk, as the truth comes out, he tries to reconcile with his wife by saying that he can no longer watch her suffering. But even James can no longer believe his own lies.

He is finally honest with Mary when he admits that he hated her and “wanted her out of the way” so he ended her. But in one of the hardest scenes to watch, Mary replies, “James, if that were true, then why do you look so sad?” It is suddenly clear that James' motive for killing Mary will never be known, nor if he regrets it at all.

1 “I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear you to forget me.

Spoken by Mary Shepherd-Sunderland to James Sunderland

Mary's letter to James v Silent Hill 2 is basically a handwritten apology, even though she was the one slowly dying of a disease she couldn't have predicted. In the letter, Mary reminisces about Silent Hill and her time with James and tells him that by the time she reads the letter, she will be dead. Most of Mary's last words are poignant and devastating, but there is one particular line that stands out more than the rest: “I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear you to forget me.”

Mary apologizes for everything she's done to James over the past few years and signs off forever with “James, you made me happy” and Silent Hill the fan continued bawling his eyes out. Any line from Mary's letter could be labeled as one of the saddest quotes in Silent Hill historybut Mary's plea for us to remember her strikes a particularly poignant chord.