Breakups are tough, and hopefully, these sad love quotes can help you to remember the happier times. Allow these sad quotes to inspire you to see a light at the end of the tunnel and push you past the heartache.
Sadness is a natural part of life that’s usually associated with certain experiences of loss or pain.
There are many things that could make us sad, such as the loss of a loved one, conflict, failure, helplessness and disappointment. These loneliness quotes speak to a time of prolonged sadness; the period where we feel we are on our own when it comes to battling life’s challenges.
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But despite all the pain associated with it, sadness has some benefits as well.
It serves to remind us of what gives our life meaning and what matters to us.
Besides, sadness can motivate you to put in the effort to reach a happier place.
Experts have also discovered that sadness helps one to think in a more detailed and attentive way.
Although it has some benefits, frequently feeling sad can impact your quality of life.
You can avoid this by taking proactive measures such as focusing on improving your well-being, taking actions to be happier, and sharing your feelings with a trusted one.
To help you through the hard times, here is our collection of uplifting, wise, and comforting sad quotes, sad sayings, and sad proverbs, collected from a variety of sources over the years.
If you’re suffering from a broken heart, don’t hesitate to read our compilation of comforting heart break quotes that will make you feel better.
Sad Love Quotes to Lift Your Spirits
1. “Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.” – Stephen R. Covey
2. Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. – Unknown
3. It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. – Miguel de Unamuno
4. “Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.” ― Faraaz Kazi
5. If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart’s breaking. – Thomas Otway
6. “It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” – Ella Harper
7. There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It’s caused by the absence of you. – Ashleigh Brilliant
8. When you think your first falling in love, just then you realize your falling out of love. – David Grayson
9. “You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.” – Johnny Depp
10. “Since I can’t be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again.” – Susan Polis Schutz
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Sad love quotes to lighten your sorrows
11. I cannot eat, I cannot drink; the pleasures of youth and love are fled away: there was a good time once, but now that is gone, and life is no longer life. – Plato
12. “Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurt you. Finally it goes off and everything is darker than ever and all you are left with is the.. BURN!” ― Syed Arshad
13. “I wonder if I could take back every ‘I love you’ ever said to you, would I do it?” ― Faraaz Kazi
14. “You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love.” ― Ayushee Ghoshal
15. “People love each other for many reasons, not all of them good […]. They love each other because it’s easy. Or because they’re used to it. Or because they’ve given up. Or because they’re scared.” ― Nathan Hill
16. “He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me.” ― Shannon A. Thompson
17. Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you’d clicked ‘Send’. – Faraaz Kazi
18. Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable. – Nicholas Sparks
19. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.” – Anais Nin
20. “It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.” ― Samuel Butler
Sad quotes that might just change your outlook towards love and life
21. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” – Jim Rohn
22. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Kahlil Gibran
23. “There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go.” ― Tennessee Williams
24. “You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” ― Henny Youngman
25. You meet everyone twice in this life, when they come and when they go.— C.C Aurel
26. Just let me keep the last piece of my heart before you tear it all apart.— Lykke Li
27. Sadness flies away on the wings of time. – Jean de La Fontaine
28. Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love. – Mario Teguh
29. It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories. – Bonnie Blair
30. Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is! – Dita Von Teese
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Sad quotes about love and life
31. Nothing is worse than when someone who’s supposed to love you just leaves.— Ava Dellaira
32. Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. – Leonardo da Vinci
33. I wish I could give you my pain just for one moment so you can understand how much you hurt me.— Mohsen El-guindy
34. A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. –Queen Victoria
35. It hurts to leave a light on for nobody.— Graham Foust
36. “As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.”― Tabitha Suzuma
37. “Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.”― David Levithan
38. It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. – Henry Rollins
39. Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. – Paramahansa Yogananda
40. Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever. – Mattie Stepanek
Sad love quotes to help fix a broken heart
41. “Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”― W.S. Merwin
42. “He taught me how to love, but not how to stop.” ― Anonymous
43. “How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn’t he catch my falling star? I wish I didn’t wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.” ― Tony Braxton
44. You ruin your love because you don’t think you deserve anything good.— Warsan Shire
45. The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung
46. First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great. – Alyssa Milano
47. You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens. – Kirsten Dunst
48. Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. – Stephen Chbosky
49. You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. – Jonathan Safran Foer
50. It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. – George Eliot
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Sad quotes to get you through the tough times
51. The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. – Bob Marley
52. For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.” – John Greenleaf Whittier
53. Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Khalil Gibran
54. Sadness is also a kind of defence. – Ivo Andric
55. When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. – Alexander Graham Bell
56. “Rather than crying & craving for those who left our path during dark moments of our life, lets spend some time to thank them who stood and helped us to pass those dark paths.”― Nehali Lalwani
57. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss
58. “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
59. “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” ― José N. Harris
60. “Tears are words that need to be written.” ― Paulo Coelho
Sad love quotes to inspire and teach
61. “Percy let me go, she croaked. You can’t pull me up. Never” ― Rick Riordan
62. “Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?” ― Faraaz Kazi
63. “And in the end, I said you would love me. We’re in the end and there’s only one of us here.” ― Dominic Riccitello
64. “I’ll love you even when I can’t”
“I’ll love you even when I shouldn’t” ― Colleen Hoover
65. “Me wondering why they don’t say nothing about a kiss being salty as a tear.” ― Lindsay Hunter
66. “Sometimes you don’t realize how much you care for someone until they stop caring for you.” – Anonymous
67. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”- Jim Rohn
68. “There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.” – La Rochefoucauld
69. “Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned…” – William Butler Yeats
70. “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” – Charlie Brown
Sad love quotes to cheer you up
71. “The worst feeling in the world is knowing you’ve done everything you can to show someone you love them, and yet they still choose someone else over you.” – Bernajoy Vaal
72. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
73. “Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.” – Stephen King
74. “The worst feeling is not being lonely. It’s when someone makes you feel special, then suddenly leaves you and you have to pretend you don’t mind at all.” – Nishan Panwar
75. “Hearts are breakable. Even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.” – Cassandra Clare
76. “You are supposed to dry my tears, not cause them….” – Unknown
77. “I felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.” – James Dashner
78. “Missing someone special to you bring tears to your eyes, but remembering all the good times you had brings a smile to your face.” – Nishan Panwar
79. “I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.” – Gayle Forman
80. “I wore your promise on my finger for one year. I’ll wear your name on my heart till I die. Because you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.” – Coco J. Ginger
81. “Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.”– Mark Haddon
82. “The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.” – Charlaine Harris
83. “It still hurts that you’re doing completely okay, without me.” – Unknown
84. “Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.”– Joshua Wisenbaker
85. “A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried.” – Unknown
Sad love quotes about heartbreak
86. “One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you… then you’re gonna hate yourself for letting me go.” – Aubrey Drake Graham
87. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Richard Puz
88. “Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” – Violeta Parra
89. “Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.” – Aman Jassal
90. “The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
91. “A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.” – J.S.B. Morse
92. “The clouds wept when my heart sang a song of sorrow.” – Sonya Watson
93. “Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.” – Christina Westover
94. “Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” – Mandy Hale
95. “The way to my heart was shattered when you left me, but I was glad because your memories were invulnerable, locked inside my heart.” – Anmol Rawat
96. “It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” – Sara Teasdale
97. “I understand that if you have never suffered a broken heart, then you have never really known what it is to truly be alive.” – Patti Roberts
98. “I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” – H.C. Paye
99. “I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.” – Sara Evans
100. “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” – Carroll Bryant
Sad love quotes for the broken hearted
101. “You know, I’ll be loving you still. The nights are lonely, the days are so sad and I just keep thinking about the love that we had. And I’m missing you and nobody knows it but me.” – Shayne Ward
102. “Losing someone hurts but if you truly love them you should let them go, one day you’ll be reunited.” – Unknown
103. “Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile.” – Mia Asher
104. “It’s the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that’s worth having.” – Katie Ashley
105. “Just because we can’t be together doesn’t mean I don’t love you.” –Cecily von Ziegesar
106. “I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” – Margaret Mitchell
107. “The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness.” – Uniek Swain
108. “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Samuel Butler
109. “Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.” – Eileen Mayhew
110. “A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.” – Anonymous
111. “Life goes on… with or without you.” – Faraaz Kazi
112. “To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” – Bess Myerson
113. “To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” – Bill Wilson
114. “Love is ironic. Only when you hurt someone, they realise they truly love you. We shall always fall in love with the people who break our hearts.” – Anonymous
115. “The worst feeling is to be ignored once, then twice, then again and again by someone you consider precious.” – Betsy Kenton
Sad love quotes to enlighten
116. “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” – Bette Davis
117. “To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” – Mary Oliver
118. “He is not a lover who does not love forever.” – Euripides
119. “The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
120. “I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.” – Humphrey Bogart
121. “Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.” – William Blake
122. “Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.” – Toni Morrison
123. “Sometimes you need to run away just to see who will come after you.” – Lisa Page Brooks
124. “I wonder if I could take back every ‘I love you’ ever said to you, would I do it?” – Faraaz Kazi
125. “When people can walk away from you: Let them walk.” –
T. D. Jakes
Sad love quotes to express your sad feelings
126. “The hardest thing is to hurt yourself for the sake of others’ happiness.” – Unknown
127. “This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach.”― Wendy Wunder
128. “I did the searching and remembering, She did the disappearing and the forgetting.” – Unknown
129. “She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there–like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.”― Katherine Paterson
130. “I will wait till the day I can forget YOU or the day you realize you can’t forget Me.” – Unknown
131. “Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain.”― Diana Peterfreund
132. “Goodbyes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, memories good or bad will bring tears and words can never replace feelings.” – Unknown
133. “Love can sometimes be magic..but magic can sometimes ..just be an illusion.” – Javan
134. “It’s hard when someone special ignores you, but it’s even harder to pretend that you don’t care.” – Unknown
135. “I’m so in love with you but I’m getting used to the fact that I’ll never be good enough for you.” – Unknown
Sad love quotes for the broken-hearted
136. “Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” – Lamartine
137. “There is nothing in the world so wonderful as to love and be loved; there is nothing so devastating as love lost.” – Unknown
138. “My love lies bleeding.” – Thomas Campbell
139. “The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” – G.K. Chesterton
140. “Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.” – John Dryden
141. “Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met.”- Unknown
142. “When speaking of lost love, time may heal all wounds, but there will always be scars.” – Unknown
143. “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.” – Jane Austen
144. “People who have lost relationships often wonder why they can’t just let it be “water under the bridge.” It is water under the bridge – the trouble is we do not live on the bridge but in the river of life with its many twists and turns.” – Santiz Grant Fairley
145. “You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.” –
Terri Guillemets
Sad love quotes about feeling hurt
146. “Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” – Patti Roberts
147. “When you are in love and you get hurt, it’s like a cut. It will heal, but there will always be a scar.” – Unknown
148. “Hearts will never be made practical until they are made unbreakable.” – L. Frank Baum
149. “Life would be so much easier if we only fell in love with people that would love us back.” – Unknown
150. “A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just his way of letting you realize he saved you from the wrong one.” – Unknown
151. “There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you.” – Steve Maraboli
152. “There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be.” – Pearl Buck
153. “Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.” – Merle Shan
154. “Everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” – Unknown
155. “The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.” – Benjamin Disraeli
Deep sad love quotes
156. “Never lose yourself while trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.” – Unknown
157. “I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.” – Unknown
158. “I try to make people feel loved and wanted because I know what it’s like to not feel loved and wanted.” – Unknown
159. “Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.” – Unknown
160. “Yeah, I miss you. I miss you. I miss having you to talk to whenever I wanted. But I know I have to move on because this is pointless.” – Unknown
161. “Even if I fall in love again with someone new, it could never be the way I loved you.” – Unknown
162. “Sadly, the only way some people will learn to appreciate you is by losing you.” – Unknown
163. “You don’t die from a broken heart. You only wish you did.” – Unknown
164. “You know you love someone when you can’t hate them for breaking your heart.” – Unknown
165. “A broken heart is the worst. It’s like having broken ribs. Nobody can see it but the pain is unbearable every time you breathe.” – Unknown
More sad love quotes
166. “I’m technically single but my heart is taken by someone I can’t call my own.” – Unknown
167. “I will never regret you or say I wish I’d never met you. Because once upon a time you were exactly what I needed.” – Unknown
168. “I wish I could just ask you what you think of me.” – Unknown
169. “I wish I could hurt you the way you hurt me. But I know that if I had the chance, I wouldn’t do it.” – Unknown
170. “It’s hard to sleep when your heart is at war with your mind.” – Unknown
171. “A heart doesn’t have to stop beating to be dead.” – Unknown
172. “How do you tell someone that the reason you’re sad is that you love them?” – Unknown
173. “I miss the time when you just wanted to spend every second of your life with me.” – Unknown
174. “My mistake was making you a priority when I was your second choice.” – Unknown
175. “The worst feeling in the world is when you can’t love anyone else because your heart still belongs to the one who broke it.” – Unknown
Which are your favorite sad love quotes
Feelings of sadness are inevitable in life. No matter your status, you’re bound to experience sadness at some point in your life.
It could be as a result of death, break-ups, failure, conflict, or any other undesirable event.
Luckily, there are things you can do to overcome sadness.
Hopefully, these sad quotes have helped lift your spirits and given you ideas on how to cope with sadness.
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