21 Best Grumpy Cat Memes And Funny Quotes About Love & Life

Our favorite cranky feline talks — purrs — anti-love.

By Michelle Toglia — Written on Oct 25, 2017

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Who Is Grumpy Cat? 21 Grumpy Cat Memes And Quotes About Love & Life

Love makes the world go round... except when it doesn't. We've all been there before, to that place where your outlook on love is, well, not so bright. We've all experienced our fair share of relationship challenges, heartbreaks, and messy breakups.

And who else out there has the power to remind you with just a momentary glimpse of their bitter face of just how incredibly terrible love can make you feel than Grumpy Cat herself?

That's right. In case you missed it, Grumpy Cat is a feline of the female persuasion. No wonder she's so gosh darn pissy all the time. Have you been a female on the Internet (let alone in the world!) lately?

It's rough out there, I tell you. ROUGH.

Previously known by the name she was given at birth (on April 4, 2012), Tardar Sauce, who has both an underbite and feline dwarfism, became an overnight sensation at the tender young age of 5 months, when owner Tabatha Bundensen's brother Bryan took some photos of her perpetually "grumpy" facial expression and posted them on Reddit with the simple caption, "Meet grumpy cat."

Meet grumpy cat from pics

Reddit user magicsebi decided to help a (literal) brother out, taking it upon themselves to create what seems to be the first ever Grumpy Cat meme.

Comment from discussion Meet grumpy cat.

From there, a true star — and countless hysterical Grumpy Cat memes — were born.

Tabatha, who was a waitress at the time Grumpy Cat memes first started to go viral, told the Telegraph:

"I was able to quit my job as a waitress within days of her first appearance on social media and the phone simply hasn't stopped ringing since."

And according to Business Insider:

"In two years, Bundesen... generated nearly $100 million from Grumpy Cat's paid appearances, book deals, and modeling career, according to The Telegraph (Bundesen tells Huffington Post that amount is inaccurate, but doesn't say if it's high or low). Bundesen believes Grumpy Cat is 'unstoppable.'"

While it's been awhile now since we've seen quite as much of Grumpy Cat and her famously bitter memes around these parts of the social media woods, she does appear to be one of those classic staples of comedy history that will never be completely absent. Well, that is, unless Grumpy Cat died, as some people believe is actually the case, but alas, we are not here for such conspiracy theories at this time.

So while sweet and sour mixed breed Tardar (her mother is a Calico and her father's breed is unknown, the scoundrel), she remains a potentially eternal symbol for all that is bitter, somewhat angry, sarcastic and resentful about love and romantic relationships.

For those of you who have ever known what it means to be crushed by some romantic ideal of love, here are 21 Grumpy Cat memes that will make you feel like the cat's meow once again.