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* In a ''{{Superman}}'' comic called "The Unknown Super Deeds", Superboy surmises as he picks up a boy who fell into a well that he cried himself to sleep while Superboy was getting there.
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* In ''Literature/SuicideNotesFromBeautifulGirls'', Chapter 26 opens with June crying herself to sleep, then going to school the next morning with red, puffy eyes.
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* ''Fanfic/ShipsAhoy'': When Olive finds out about Oscar deliberately wishing to become a Lab Director and witnesses him being promoted to the position, she breaks down in the ball pit and begins crying, cycling through a range of thoughts that eventually leave her drowsy enough to fall asleep and not wake up until everyone has left work for the day.
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* The preadolescent heroine of the ''{{Goosebumps}}'' book "The Ghost Next Door" does this when she discovers [[spoiler:she's already dead.]]
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What is sadder than anyone crying until they're sleep? For one thing, it means the character is upset enough to be crying -- crying until the prerequisite consciousness is lost. In addition, it means that the character is presumably a very lonely person. Nobody comes to comfort the crying character (even though that's most people's instinctive reaction); the character is left to self-console.
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What is sadder than anyone crying until they're sleep? asleep? For one thing, it means the character is upset enough to be crying -- crying until the prerequisite consciousness is lost. In addition, it means that the character is presumably a very lonely person. Nobody comes to comfort the crying character (even though that's most people's instinctive reaction); the character is left to self-console.
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* A variation is discussed in a one shot story of ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons''. After Springfield is cut in two (likely a MythologyGag from the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E2ATaleOfTwoSpringfields A Tale of Two Sprinfields"]]), Bart laments that Milhouse is stuck on the other side of the wall splitting the town. Homer tries to console him with a story where another little boy was sad to be away from his friend, which ends with the boy crying himslef to death. Bart say's Homer is "not much a father," but Homer doesn't mind.
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* ''Fanfic/BridgeToTerabithia2TheLastTime'': After Jess and Leslie sees each other for the first time in five years, the latter having being though to be dead (she was actually a recently-rescued victim from a HumanTrafficking ring, after being abducted five years earlier and assumed to have drowned as a child), Leslie ends up breaking into tears while in Jess' arms, and fell asleep after crying for several minutes.
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* ''Fanfic/BridgeToTerabithia2TheLastTime'': After Jess and Leslie sees see each other for the first time in five years, the latter having being though been thought to be dead (she was actually a recently-rescued victim from a HumanTrafficking ring, after being abducted five years earlier and assumed to have drowned as a child), Leslie ends up breaking into tears while in Jess' arms, and fell asleep after crying for several minutes.
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* In an episode of the Simpsons, after the family goes visit the girl in juvenile hall that Bart befriended to treat her to a mexican diner, the prision warden talks about his upcoming evening.
-->'''Warden''': Well, my shift's over. I guess it's back to my bachelor apartment, make a tuna sandwich, turn on Will and Grace and cry myself to sleep...
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* In an episode of the Simpsons, after the family goes visit the girl in juvenile hall that Bart befriended to treat her to a mexican Mexican diner, the prision prison warden talks about his upcoming evening.
-->'''Warden''': Well, my shift's over. I guess it's back to my bachelor apartment, make a tuna sandwich, turn on Will andGrace Grace, and cry myself to sleep...
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-->'''Marge''': Mhh... would you like to join us?
-->'''Warden''': (Angrily) "Didn't you hear me? I have an evening planned!"
-->'''Warden''': Well, my shift's over. I guess it's back to my bachelor apartment, make a tuna sandwich, turn on Will and Grace and cry myself to sleep...
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* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': In "The Impossible Box", Raffi has a tear streaming from the side of her right eye when Rios tucks her into bed, and she dozes off soon afterwards.
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* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': In "The "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS1E06TheImpossibleBox The Impossible Box", Box]]", Raffi has a tear streaming from the side of her right eye when Rios tucks her into bed, and she dozes off soon afterwards.
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--> The next morning, I slowly regained consciousness, greeted by the feeling of a wet pillow against my face. I wondered for a moment why it was wet in the first place, and finally remembered why.\\
I cried myself to sleep that night.
--> The next morning, I slowly regained consciousness, greeted by the feeling of a wet pillow against my face. I wondered for a moment why it was wet in the first place, and finally remembered why.\\
I cried myself to sleep that night.
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* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Jadzia Dax talks about how she had some bad times while training to host TheSymbiote, one of them being crying herself to sleep.
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* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': In "The Impossible Box", Raffi has a tear streaming from the side of her right eye when Rios tucks her into bed, and she dozes off soon afterwards.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': In "The Impossible Box", Raffi has a tear streaming from the side of her right eye when Rios tucks her into bed, and she dozes off soon afterwards.
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* In ''GO-GO Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}!'' episode 33, Lovesoratchi is sad that he can't go out to space with Mofumotchi, goes to his room, and cries on his bed while looking at a picture he drew of a rocket ship. When Lovelitchi and Melodytchi check on him later, he's sleeping and still has tears in his eyes.
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* In ''GO-GO Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}!'' episode 33, Lovesoratchi is sad that he can't go out to space with Mofumotchi, goes to his room, and cries on his bed while looking at a picture he drew of a rocket ship. When Lovelitchi and Melodytchi check on him later, he's sleeping and still has tears in his eyes.
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* A variation is discussed in a one shot story of ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons''. After Springfield is cut in two (likely a MythologyGag from the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E2ATaleOfTwoSpringfields A Tale of Two Sprinfields"]]), Bart laments that Milhouse is stuck on the other side of the wall splitting the town. Homer tries to console him with a story where another little boy was sad to be away from his friend, which ends with the boy crying himslef to death. Bart say's Homer is "not much a father," but Homer doesn't mind.
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* ''[[Literature/EndersGame Ender's Shadow]]''. During his first night at the Battle School, Bean overhears a kid crying himself to sleep. Bean, who at this point is [[TheSpock an extreme rationalist]], dismisses the kid as stupid because crying won't fix the situation. Having grown up on the streets, Bean had no parents and thus is extremely emotionally stunted due to having to fight for survival every day of his life.
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** During his first night at the Battle School, Bean overhears a kid crying himself to sleep. Bean, who at this point is [[TheSpock an extreme rationalist]], dismisses the kid as stupid because crying won't fix the situation. Having grown up on the streets, Bean had no parents and thus is extremely emotionally stunted due to having to fight for survival every day of his life.
** During his first night at the Battle School, Bean overhears a kid crying himself to sleep. Bean, who at this point is [[TheSpock an extreme rationalist]], dismisses the kid as stupid because crying won't fix the situation. Having grown up on the streets, Bean had no parents and thus is extremely emotionally stunted due to having to fight for survival every day of his life.
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* In ''Fanfic/LincolnIsDone'', [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Luna Loud]] cries herself to sleep due to missing her [[TheRunaway runaway]] brother Lincoln and feeling guilty because he was mad and that's why he ran away.
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* At the ending of ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' when Charlie's ghost comes to say goodbye to Anne-Marie, he sees his friend Itchy sleeping next to her with a very sad, furrowed brow, implying that he cried himself to sleep after seeing Charlie drown.
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* In ''Literature/MansfieldPark'', little Fanny cries herself to sleep every night after she gets adopted by her wealthy relatives, because she misses her family and nobody is particularly kind to her. After a week her cousin Edmund finds her crying and comforts her. Since then she's calmer and happier.
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* In ''Literature/MansfieldPark'', little Fanny cries herself to sleep every night after she gets adopted by her wealthy relatives, relatives because she misses her family and nobody is particularly kind to her. After a week week, her cousin Edmund finds her crying and comforts her. Since then she's calmer and happier.
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* In the first book of the ''Literature/VenusPrime'' series, Sparta often cries herself to sleep during the months that she spends training to become a Space Board Inspector, because the training is brutal and she is incredibly isolated.
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* In the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One With Phoebe's Rats" Ross and Rachel hire an attractive nanny. In front of Rachel Ross has to pretend that the nanny isn't hot, but once Rachel leaves he admits that she's "so hot I cried myself to sleep last night."
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* In the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One With Phoebe's Rats" Ross and Rachel hire an attractive nanny. In front of Rachel Rachel, Ross has to pretend that the nanny isn't hot, but once Rachel leaves he admits that she's "so hot I cried myself to sleep last night."
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* Brought up in complete irony in ''WebVideo/JoJosBizarreAdventureAbridged'', when Jonathan completely denies [[CurbStompBattle getting completely beaten by Dio]], being abandoned by his friends and completely denies crying himself to sleep that night. As in the source material, it is meant to show the drastic turnaround Jonathan's life has taken now that Dio was part of the family.
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* Brought up in complete irony in ''WebVideo/JoJosBizarreAdventureAbridged'', when Jonathan completely denies [[CurbStompBattle getting completely beaten by Dio]], being abandoned by his friends friends, and completely denies crying himself to sleep that night. As in the source material, it is meant to show the drastic turnaround Jonathan's life has taken now that Dio was is part of the family.
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9421918/9/Soldier-of-Zero Soldier of Zero]]'', Louise keeps a stock of dreamless sleep potions that she used to use as an alternative to crying herself to sleep.
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* In ''VideoGame/LifeTheGame'', if you reject one of the OK girls (i.e. the girls who are neither psychopaths nor old ladies), it will say that you greatly regretted rejecting her and cried yourself to sleep two days of the week.
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* In ''VideoGame/LifeTheGame'', if you reject one of the OK girls (i.e. the girls who are neither psychopaths nor old ladies), it will say that you greatly regretted rejecting her and cried yourself to sleep two days of the week.
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* Josh cries himself to sleep on his first night as Creator/TomHanks in ''Film/{{Big}}'', and no wonder. Nobody knows who he is, he's staying in a fleabag hotel in the BigRottenApple, and somebody just got shot in one of the other rooms.
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* Josh cries himself to sleep on his first night as Creator/TomHanks in ''Film/{{Big}}'', and no wonder. Nobody knows who he is, he's staying in a fleabag hotel in the BigRottenApple, and somebody just got shot in one of the other rooms.outside, and another guest is shouting verbal abuse.
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** Of course, thinking along these lines leads him to ponder the important people in his own life. Poke, the first person who showed him kindness, who gave him a chance, who saved his life, was murdered, and deep down he knows she sacrificed herself to protect him. He doesn't understand why she did all that, [[NotSoStoicAfterAll but he still misses her]].
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** Of course, thinking along these lines leads him to ponder the important people in his own life. Poke, the first person who showed him kindness, who gave him a chance, who saved his life, was murdered, and deep down he knows she sacrificed herself to protect him. He doesn't understand why she did all that, [[NotSoStoicAfterAll but he still misses her]].
-->He wiped his eyes, rolled over, and willed his body to relax and go to sleep. [...] Long before morning his pillow would be dry.
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In the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One With Phoebe's Rats" Ross and Rachel hire an attractive nanny. In front of Rachel Ross has to pretend that the nanny isn't hot, but once Rachel leaves he admits that she's "so hot I cried myself to sleep last night."
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* In the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One With Phoebe's Rats" Ross and Rachel hire an attractive nanny. In front of Rachel Ross has to pretend that the nanny isn't hot, but once Rachel leaves he admits that she's "so hot I cried myself to sleep last night."
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-->[[ChurchOfHappyology Blaneologist]]: I can show you how to make your true self appear. Let me ask you all something: do you consider yourselves to be happy?
-->Butters: I don't think I'm very happy. I always fall asleep to the sound of my own screams.
-->Blaineologist: ''[pause]'' Right. See, the reason that you are...
-->Butters: I don't think I'm very happy. I always fall asleep to the sound of my own screams.
-->Blaineologist: ''[pause]'' Right. See, the reason that you are...
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* In the Classic ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "Two", the woman cries herself to sleep after her hostility, left over from pre-apocalyptic days, has driven off the only other person on Earth.
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* In the Classic ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "Two", the woman cries herself to sleep after her hostility, left over from pre-apocalyptic days, has driven off the only other person on Earth.
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* Implied in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Crystals Have Power" when Finn gives a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial stating "You didn't even make me cry silently into my pillow last night for thirty minutes."
* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', Fievel cries himself to sleep after giving up on finding his lost family and taking up residence in a dark, rainy alley.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', Fievel cries himself to sleep after giving up on finding his lost family and taking up residence in a dark, rainy alley.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', Fievel cries himself to sleep after giving up on finding his lost family and taking up residence in a dark, rainy alley.
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What is sadder than anyone crying until they're sleep? For one thing, it means the character is upset enough to be crying -- crying until the prerequisite consciousness is lost. In addition, it means that the character is presumably a very lonely person. Nobody comes to comfort the crying character (even though that's most people's instinctive reaction); the character is left to self-console.
The phrase is often used in order to indicate a really upsetting past, and it usually will imply in such a case that it was something the person did repeatedly. Less often do you see anyone actually cry themselves to sleep. If this is shown, it's also likely that the character doing it is TheWoobie.
Clumsy use of this trope may leave the audience calling {{Wangst}}.
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* In a ''{{Superman}}'' comic called "The Unknown Super Deeds", Superboy surmises as he picks up a boy who fell into a well that he cried himself to sleep while Superboy was getting there.
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* Mentioned in chapter 2 of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4019820/1/Harry-Potter-the-Other-Child Harry Potter: the Other Child]]'' (a [[FandomSpecificPlot Wrong Boy Who Lived]] fic, with Harry naturally neglected in favor of his brother).
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', Fievel cries himself to sleep after giving up on finding his lost family and taking up residence in a dark, rainy alley.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'', Rumpelstiltskin gives Shrek a deal that he could become intimidating again for a day, but a day needs to be taken from his life in exchange. Rumpelstiltskin tricks Shrek into letting him take ''his birthday'', which leads to, among other things, not having met Princess Fiona so she escaped the Dragon's Keep on her own. While telling Shrek off, Alternate Fiona says, "Did you cry yourself to sleep every night?!".
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* Josh cries himself to sleep on his first night as Creator/TomHanks in ''Film/{{Big}}'', and no wonder. Nobody knows who he is, he's staying in a fleabag hotel in the BigRottenApple, and somebody just got shot in one of the other rooms.
* In ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'', the ex-wife says that when she was married, she was so unhappy with her married life that she would cry herself to sleep.
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* ''[[Literature/EndersGame Ender's Shadow]]''. During his first night at the Battle School, Bean overhears a kid crying himself to sleep. Bean, who at this point is [[TheSpock an extreme rationalist]], dismisses the kid as stupid because crying won't fix the situation. Having grown up on the streets, Bean had no parents and thus is extremely emotionally stunted due to having to fight for survival every day of his life.
* In ''Literature/TheGirlTheDogAndTheWriterInProvence'', the titular girl Freja sometimes falls asleep sobbing because she misses her mother Clementine and is worried because Clementine is ill.
* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar''. In ''Intrigues'', when Mags is driven from the Collegium due to psychic pressures and depression, he cries himself to sleep at least once.
* In ''Literature/MansfieldPark'', little Fanny cries herself to sleep every night after she gets adopted by her wealthy relatives, because she misses her family and nobody is particularly kind to her. After a week her cousin Edmund finds her crying and comforts her. Since then she's calmer and happier.
--> ''"The little girl who was spoken of in the drawing-room when she left it at night as seeming so desirably sensible of her peculiar good fortune, ended every day's sorrows by sobbing herself to sleep."''
* In ''My Side of the Mountain'' Sam Gribley's first night living off the land in the New York Catskills doesn't go as well as he had hoped:
-->''(After describing the winds going through the valley right to where he was, the cold wet ground, and the sound of a bird keeping him awake) Well, anyway, the whole night went light that. I don't think I slept fifteen minutes, and I was so scared and tired that my throat was dry. I wanted a drink but didn't dare go near the stream for fear of making a misstep and falling in and getting wet. So I sat tight and shivered and shook--and now I am able to say--I cried a little tiny bit. Fortunately, the sun has a wonderfully glorious habit of rising every morning.''
* ''Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings''. In ''The Liveship Traders'', Brashen Trell remembers how he did this on his first sea-voyage after being disinherited and discovering the brutal hardships of being a sailor. [[FromBadToWorse Then, another sailor tried to molest him]].
* The Time Traveler in ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' is so distraught when he discovers his machine is missing, leaving him trapped in the distant future, that he falls and cries until he wakes up the next morning.
* Mentioned in one chapter of ''Creator/DaveBarry's Complete Guide to Guys'', in a chapter where he explains the unbridgeable distance between men and women's thought processes: Eileen offhandedly mentions they've been dating for six months, sees Roger lost in thought and makes a bunch of assumptions (Am I being too forward with this? Does he really want the same thing out of this relationship as I do?), building up from them regarding their relationship and ends up crying herself to sleep after a conference call with all her friends because she thinks she's being a horrible person to Roger. Roger, on the other hand, was lost in thought because he remembered it'd been at least six months since he'd gotten the car checked, and of course has no idea what Eileen is getting upset over in the first place.
* In the first book of the ''Literature/VenusPrime'' series, Sparta often cries herself to sleep during the months that she spends training to become a Space Board Inspector, because the training is brutal and she is incredibly isolated.
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In the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One With Phoebe's Rats" Ross and Rachel hire an attractive nanny. In front of Rachel Ross has to pretend that the nanny isn't hot, but once Rachel leaves he admits that she's "so hot I cried myself to sleep last night."
* In the ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'' episode "Little Girl Lost," Hutch takes in a recently-orphaned twelve-year-old girl so she won't have to spend Christmas in Juvie. For most of the day she acts tough and angry and doesn't show any weakness, but that night she cries herself to sleep while Hutch listens from the next room, unable to help her.
* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Jadzia Dax talks about how she had some bad times while training to host TheSymbiote, one of them being crying herself to sleep.
* In the Classic ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "Two", the woman cries herself to sleep after her hostility, left over from pre-apocalyptic days, has driven off the only other person on Earth.
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* The song "Don't Laugh at Me" by Mark Willis, which about how kids that get bullied feel, contains the line "And I know how it feels to cry myself to sleep...".
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* Brought up in complete irony in ''WebVideo/JoJosBizarreAdventureAbridged'', when Jonathan completely denies [[CurbStompBattle getting completely beaten by Dio]], being abandoned by his friends and completely denies crying himself to sleep that night. As in the source material, it is meant to show the drastic turnaround Jonathan's life has taken now that Dio was part of the family.
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* Implied in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Crystals Have Power" when Finn gives a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial stating "You didn't even make me cry silently into my pillow last night for thirty minutes."
* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', Fievel cries himself to sleep after giving up on finding his lost family and taking up residence in a dark, rainy alley.
* A variation from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
-->[[ChurchOfHappyology Blaneologist]]: I can show you how to make your true self appear. Let me ask you all something: do you consider yourselves to be happy?
-->Butters: I don't think I'm very happy. I always fall asleep to the sound of my own screams.
-->Blaineologist: ''[pause]'' Right. See, the reason that you are...
* Implied in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Crystals Have Power" when Finn gives a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial stating "You didn't even make me cry silently into my pillow last night for thirty minutes."
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The phrase is often used in order to indicate a really upsetting past, and it usually will imply in such a case that it was something the person did repeatedly. Less often do you see anyone actually cry themselves to sleep. If this is shown, it's also likely that the character doing it is TheWoobie.
Clumsy use of this trope may leave the audience calling {{Wangst}}.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In a ''{{Superman}}'' comic called "The Unknown Super Deeds", Superboy surmises as he picks up a boy who fell into a well that he cried himself to sleep while Superboy was getting there.
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[[folder:Fan Fiction]]
* Mentioned in chapter 2 of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4019820/1/Harry-Potter-the-Other-Child Harry Potter: the Other Child]]'' (a [[FandomSpecificPlot Wrong Boy Who Lived]] fic, with Harry naturally neglected in favor of his brother).
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[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', Fievel cries himself to sleep after giving up on finding his lost family and taking up residence in a dark, rainy alley.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'', Rumpelstiltskin gives Shrek a deal that he could become intimidating again for a day, but a day needs to be taken from his life in exchange. Rumpelstiltskin tricks Shrek into letting him take ''his birthday'', which leads to, among other things, not having met Princess Fiona so she escaped the Dragon's Keep on her own. While telling Shrek off, Alternate Fiona says, "Did you cry yourself to sleep every night?!".
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* Josh cries himself to sleep on his first night as Creator/TomHanks in ''Film/{{Big}}'', and no wonder. Nobody knows who he is, he's staying in a fleabag hotel in the BigRottenApple, and somebody just got shot in one of the other rooms.
* In ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'', the ex-wife says that when she was married, she was so unhappy with her married life that she would cry herself to sleep.
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* ''[[Literature/EndersGame Ender's Shadow]]''. During his first night at the Battle School, Bean overhears a kid crying himself to sleep. Bean, who at this point is [[TheSpock an extreme rationalist]], dismisses the kid as stupid because crying won't fix the situation. Having grown up on the streets, Bean had no parents and thus is extremely emotionally stunted due to having to fight for survival every day of his life.
* In ''Literature/TheGirlTheDogAndTheWriterInProvence'', the titular girl Freja sometimes falls asleep sobbing because she misses her mother Clementine and is worried because Clementine is ill.
* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar''. In ''Intrigues'', when Mags is driven from the Collegium due to psychic pressures and depression, he cries himself to sleep at least once.
* In ''Literature/MansfieldPark'', little Fanny cries herself to sleep every night after she gets adopted by her wealthy relatives, because she misses her family and nobody is particularly kind to her. After a week her cousin Edmund finds her crying and comforts her. Since then she's calmer and happier.
--> ''"The little girl who was spoken of in the drawing-room when she left it at night as seeming so desirably sensible of her peculiar good fortune, ended every day's sorrows by sobbing herself to sleep."''
* In ''My Side of the Mountain'' Sam Gribley's first night living off the land in the New York Catskills doesn't go as well as he had hoped:
-->''(After describing the winds going through the valley right to where he was, the cold wet ground, and the sound of a bird keeping him awake) Well, anyway, the whole night went light that. I don't think I slept fifteen minutes, and I was so scared and tired that my throat was dry. I wanted a drink but didn't dare go near the stream for fear of making a misstep and falling in and getting wet. So I sat tight and shivered and shook--and now I am able to say--I cried a little tiny bit. Fortunately, the sun has a wonderfully glorious habit of rising every morning.''
* ''Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings''. In ''The Liveship Traders'', Brashen Trell remembers how he did this on his first sea-voyage after being disinherited and discovering the brutal hardships of being a sailor. [[FromBadToWorse Then, another sailor tried to molest him]].
* The Time Traveler in ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' is so distraught when he discovers his machine is missing, leaving him trapped in the distant future, that he falls and cries until he wakes up the next morning.
* Mentioned in one chapter of ''Creator/DaveBarry's Complete Guide to Guys'', in a chapter where he explains the unbridgeable distance between men and women's thought processes: Eileen offhandedly mentions they've been dating for six months, sees Roger lost in thought and makes a bunch of assumptions (Am I being too forward with this? Does he really want the same thing out of this relationship as I do?), building up from them regarding their relationship and ends up crying herself to sleep after a conference call with all her friends because she thinks she's being a horrible person to Roger. Roger, on the other hand, was lost in thought because he remembered it'd been at least six months since he'd gotten the car checked, and of course has no idea what Eileen is getting upset over in the first place.
* In the first book of the ''Literature/VenusPrime'' series, Sparta often cries herself to sleep during the months that she spends training to become a Space Board Inspector, because the training is brutal and she is incredibly isolated.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
In the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One With Phoebe's Rats" Ross and Rachel hire an attractive nanny. In front of Rachel Ross has to pretend that the nanny isn't hot, but once Rachel leaves he admits that she's "so hot I cried myself to sleep last night."
* In the ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'' episode "Little Girl Lost," Hutch takes in a recently-orphaned twelve-year-old girl so she won't have to spend Christmas in Juvie. For most of the day she acts tough and angry and doesn't show any weakness, but that night she cries herself to sleep while Hutch listens from the next room, unable to help her.
* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Jadzia Dax talks about how she had some bad times while training to host TheSymbiote, one of them being crying herself to sleep.
* In the Classic ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "Two", the woman cries herself to sleep after her hostility, left over from pre-apocalyptic days, has driven off the only other person on Earth.
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[[folder:Music]]
* The song "Don't Laugh at Me" by Mark Willis, which about how kids that get bullied feel, contains the line "And I know how it feels to cry myself to sleep...".
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[[folder:Web Video]]
* Brought up in complete irony in ''WebVideo/JoJosBizarreAdventureAbridged'', when Jonathan completely denies [[CurbStompBattle getting completely beaten by Dio]], being abandoned by his friends and completely denies crying himself to sleep that night. As in the source material, it is meant to show the drastic turnaround Jonathan's life has taken now that Dio was part of the family.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Implied in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Crystals Have Power" when Finn gives a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial stating "You didn't even make me cry silently into my pillow last night for thirty minutes."
* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', Fievel cries himself to sleep after giving up on finding his lost family and taking up residence in a dark, rainy alley.
* A variation from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
-->[[ChurchOfHappyology Blaneologist]]: I can show you how to make your true self appear. Let me ask you all something: do you consider yourselves to be happy?
-->Butters: I don't think I'm very happy. I always fall asleep to the sound of my own screams.
-->Blaineologist: ''[pause]'' Right. See, the reason that you are...
* Implied in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Crystals Have Power" when Finn gives a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial stating "You didn't even make me cry silently into my pillow last night for thirty minutes."
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