Sad Love Quotes! 150+ Short, Deep & Touching Sad Love Quotes
Sad Love Quotes
“Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.” —Stephen R. Covey
“When you think your first falling in love, just then you realize your falling out of love.” —David Grayson
“It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.” —Miguel de Unamuno
“Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.” —Unknown
“It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” —Ella Harper
“There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It’s caused by the absence of you.” —Ashleigh Brilliant
“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
“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
“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
“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
Best Sad Love Quotes
“You are supposed to dry my tears, not cause them….” —Unknown
“It still hurts that you’re doing completely okay, without me.” —Unknown
“Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.” —Joshua Wisenbaker
“Hearts are breakable. Even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.” —Cassandra Clare
“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” —E.A. Bucchianeri
“A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried.” —Unknown
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Heart Touching Sad Love Quotes
“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” —Henry Rollins
“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.” —Veronica Roth
“Everyone in life is going to hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.” —Bob Marley
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” —Mother Teresa
“You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It is the most human wish of all.” —Patrick Ness
“I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like–like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go.” —Lauren Oliver
“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, The Probability of Miracles
“Depression is like a heaviness that you can’t ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it’s in your bones and your blood.” —Jasmine Warga
“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, Bridge to Terabithia
Deep Sad Love Quotes
“You don’t die from a broken heart. You only wish you did.” —Unknown
“Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.” —Unknown
“You know you love someone when you can’t hate them for breaking your heart.” —Unknown
“Sadly, the only way some people will learn to appreciate you is by losing you.” —Unknown
“Never lose yourself while trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.” —Unknown
“Even if I fall in love again with someone new, it could never be the way I loved you.” —Unknown
“I try to make people feel loved and wanted because I know what it’s like to not feel loved and wanted.” —Unknown
“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
“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
“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
Short Sad Love Quotes
“Life goes on… with or without you.”
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” —Oprah Winfrey
“The heart was made to be broken.” —Oscar Wilde
“Life goes on… with or without you.” —Faraaz Kazi
“Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.” —Eileen Mayhew
“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” —Unknown
“Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.” —Christina Westover
“The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness.” —Uniek Swain
“The clouds wept when my heart sang a song of sorrow.” —Sonya Watson
“Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.” —Aman Jassal
“Sometimes your eyes are not the only place the tears fall from.” —Faraaz Kazi
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” —Kenji Miyazawa
“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.” —John Vance Cheney
“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” —Carroll Bryant
“Just because we can’t be together doesn’t mean I don’t love you.” –Cecily von Ziegesar
“You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.” —Terri Guillemets
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.” —Samuel Butler
“I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.” —Sara Evans
“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” —Bess Myerson
“To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” —Bill Wilson
Sad Quotes about Life and Love
“It hurts to leave a light on for nobody.” —Graham Foust
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” —Jean de La Fontaine
“You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” —Henny Youngman
“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” —Leonardo da Vinci
“Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.” —Mario Teguh
“Nothing is worse than when someone who’s supposed to love you just leaves.” —Ava Dellaira
“Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.” —Mattie Stepanek
“There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go.” —Tennessee Williams
“You meet everyone twice in this life, when they come and when they go.” —C.C Aurel
“A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.” —Queen Victoria
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” —Kahlil Gibran
“Just let me keep the last piece of my heart before you tear it all apart.” —Lykke Li
“It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories.” —Bonnie Blair
“Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.” —David Levithan
“I wish I could give you my pain just for one moment so you can understand how much you hurt me.” —Mohsen El-guindy
“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
“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
“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
Inspirational Quotes about Sad Love
“I’ll love you even when I can’t.”
“I’ll love you even when I shouldn’t.” —Colleen Hoover
“Percy let me go, she croaked. You can’t pull me up. Never.” —Rick Riordan
“Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned…” —William Butler Yeats
“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” —Charlie Brown
“Me wondering why they don’t say nothing about a kiss being salty as a tear.” —Lindsay Hunter
“Sometimes you don’t realize how much you care for someone until they stop caring for you.” —Anonymous
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” —Jim Rohn
“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.” —La Rochefoucauld
“Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?” ―Faraaz Kazi
“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
Broken Heart Sad Love Quotes
“Your absence has gone through me.”
“Everything I do is stitched with its color.” —W.S. Merwin
“He taught me how to love, but not how to stop.” —Anonymous
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” —Stephen Chbosky
“First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great.” —Alyssa Milano
“You ruin your love because you don’t think you deserve anything good.” —Warsan Shire
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” —Jonathan Safran Foer
“The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” —Carl Jung
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” —George Eliot
“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
“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
Feeling Sad Love Quotes
“The hardest thing is to hurt yourself for the sake of others’ happiness.” —Unknown
“I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.” —Unknown
“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… Just be an illusion.” —Javan
“It’s hard when someone special ignores you, but it’s even harder to pretend that you don’t care.” —Unknown
“I will wait till the day I can forget YOU or the day you realize you can’t forget Me.” —Unknown
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Sad Quotes about Time and Love
“Sadness is also a kind of defense.” —Ivo Andric
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” —Khalil Gibran
“Tears are words that need to be written.” —Paulo Coelho
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss
“The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.” —Bob Marley
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.” —John Greenleaf Whittier
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” —José N. Harris
“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
“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
“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
Emotional Heart Touching Sad Love Quotes
“Let no one who loves be unhappy even love unreturned has its rainbow.” —James Matthew Barrie
“Time heals grieves and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.” —Pascal
“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.” —Nicholas Sparks
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” —Herman Hesse
“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” —Steve Maraboli
“There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you.” —Steve Maraboli
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” —Mignon McLaughlin
“Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.” —Unknown
“They say follow your heart, but if your heart is in a million pieces which piece do you follow?”
“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.” —Christopher Morley
“Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you’d clicked ‘Send’.”
“I will wait for you till the day I can forget you or till the day you realize you cannot forget me.” —Herryicm
“Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.” —Unknown
“Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.” —John Steinbeck, 10 November 1958
“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.” —Harry Crews
“They say that time heals all wounds but all it’s done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you.” —Unknown
“Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.” —Faraaz Kazi
“Love is like a puzzle. When you’re in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together.” —Unknown
“Remember me with smiles and laughs, for that’s how I’ll remember you. If you can only remember me with sadness and tears, then don’t remember me at all.” —Unknown
“Sometimes you may feel that you are weak and therefore have given up but at times it only shows that you are strong enough to let go of things.” —Unknown
“I wish I had the guts to walk away & forget about what we had, but I can’t because I know you won’t come after me & that’s what hurts the most.”
“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.”
“When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.” —Unknown
“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
“One day you’ll love me as I love you. One day you’ll think of me as I think of you. One day you’ll cry for me as I cry for you. One day you’ll want me, but I won’t want you.” —Unknown
“Ask me why I keep on loving you when it’s clear that you don’t feel the same way for me… the problem is that as much as I can’t force you to love me, I can’t force myself to stop loving you.” —Unknown
“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” —Nicholas Sparks
“I didn’t ask for it to be over, but then again, I never asked for it to begin. For that is the way it is with life, as some of the most beautiful days come completely by chance. But even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunsets.” —Unknown
Broken Heart Sad Quotes about Love
“It’s the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that’s worth having.” —Katie Ashley
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” —Richard Puz
“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” —Violeta Parra
“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” —Sara Teasdale
“Losing someone hurts but if you truly love them you should let them go, one day you’ll be reunited.” —Unknown
“The worst feeling is to be ignored once, then twice, then again and again by someone you consider precious.” —Betsy Kenton
“I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” —H.C. Paye
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“Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile.” —Mia Asher
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Shakespeare Sad Love Quotes
“Live, and love thy misery.” —William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”
‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’ —(A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Act 1, Scene 2)
‘Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?’ —(As You Like It – Act 3, Scene 5)
‘Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.’ —(Romeo and Juliet – Act 1, Scene 1)
‘Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.’ —(Much Ado About Nothing – Act 3, Scene 2)
‘The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.’ —(Antony & Cleopatra – Act 5, Scene 5)
‘Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, the pretty follies that themselves commit.’ —(The Merchant of Venice – Act 2, Scene 6)
‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.’ —(A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Act 1, Scene 1)
“This would have seem’d a period to such as love not sorrow; but another, to amplify too much, would make much more, and top extremity.” —William Shakespeare
‘I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.’ —(As You Like It – Act 3, Scene 5)
‘Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move his aides, Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.’ —(Hamlet – Act 2, Scene 2)