OneLinerArchiveApril 10, 2026

OneLiner — April 10, 2026

Three movie quotes from this date. Featuring Les Misérables (2012), Clerks (1994), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990).

Matinee

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Answer: Les Misérables ()

Jean Valjean sings this to Fantine on her deathbed. Victor Hugo's most famous line, made into a lyric by Claude-Michel Schönberg for the stage musical.

Primetime

I'm not even supposed to be here today.

Answer: Clerks ()

Dante Hicks uses this as his existential complaint throughout the film. Kevin Smith's entire debut is a meditation on showing up when you'd rather not.

Midnight

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Answer: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ()

Tom Stoppard adapts Hamlet's line into his film's central comic despair. Gary Oldman and Tim Roth use it to justify their complete inability to do anything.

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