55 Touching Sad Quotes
If you have lost a loved one or a precious friendship, you will agree that the sound of heartbreak can be deafening. You will probably feel like you’re at the crossroads of life, lamenting over the past and doubting your future. You might even feel shattered!
If it offers you any comfort, know that you are not alone. A Countless number of people have walked the deceptive path of love only to be heartsick.
The good news is that time can heal all wounds and you can bounce back soon. Begin with unclogging your heart and letting go of the anger and sadness within you.
55 Touching Sad Quotes
Here are 55 touching sad quotes that reflect the pain of heartbreak and will help in the cathartic release of the sorrow within you.
1. “Love is unconditional, relationships are not.” ~ Grant Gudmundson
2. “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
3. “Your heart is the most precious part of you, never donate it to someone who doesn’t appreciate it.” ~ Unknown Author
4. “The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung
5. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” ~ Mark Twain
6. “I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.” ~ John Lennon
7. “They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don’t think it’s possible for you to miss me as much as I’m missing you right now.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
8. “I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds – but I think of you always in those intervals.” ~ Salvador Plascencia
9. “Saying someone can’t be sad because someone else may have it worse is just like saying someone can’t be happy because someone else might have it better.” ~ Unknown Author
10. “Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.” ~ Lauren Conrad
11. “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” ~ José N. Harris
12. “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” ~ Henry Rollins
13. “Thank you for breaking my heart, because without that I wouldn’t be the person I am today with the person I love.” ~ Unknown Author
14. “The hottest love has the coldest end.” ~ Socrates
15. “Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.” ~ Bob Marley
16. “Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.” ~ Ally Condie
17. “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
18. “Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself.” ~ Unknown Author
19. “Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after a while and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.” ~ L. M. Montgomery
20. “My best friend… I feel like I’ve lost him forever, and he was like my touchstone.” ~ Reality Bites, An American Romantic-Comedy Drama
21. “Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.” ~ Carmen Sylva
22. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ~ Kahlil Gibran
23. “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.” ~ Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
24. “Never long for anyone from the past. There is a reason why they never made it to your future.” ~ Unknown Author
25. “No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you’re fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they’re the ones who teach you the most about yourself.” ~ Kate Hudson
26. “The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.” ~ Hector Hugh Munro
27. “The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.” ~ Virginia Woolf
28. “Anyone can make you smile or cry, but it takes someone special to make you smile when you already have tears in your eyes.” ~ Unknown Author
29. “The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
30. “Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez
31. “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” ~ Oscar Wilde
32. “It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.” ~ Mark Twain
33. “It is better to end a relationship too early than too late. You will never get the days, weeks, and years spent with someone you don’t truly love back.” ~ Jennifer Wallace
34. “A flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand; but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon, when I don’t know, if you will ever come back.” ~ Sanober Khan
35. “The stupidest mistake in life is thinking the one who hurt you the most, won’t hurt you again.” ~ Unknown Author
36. “Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud – falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I’m not the only thing that falls apart. It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter.” ~ Lone Alaskan Gypsy
37. “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
38. “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” ~ Charlie Brown, Peanuts
39. “Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.” ~ Javan
40. “A mighty pain to love it is,
And ’tis a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain.
It is to love, but love in vain.” ~ Abraham Cowley
41. “Breaking up is part of life, but we shouldn’t let it control it.” ~ Barbara Willington
42. “Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one.” ~ Michael Penn
43. “Love only lasts as long as you let it. It is a state of mind and a state of being. If you don’t have it, break up.” ~ Jerry Towers
44. “Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” ~ Lamartine
45. “You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.” ~ Jesse Tyler
46. “Families break up when people take hints you don’t intend and miss hints you do intend.” ~ Robert Frost
47. “To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” ~ Bess Myerson
48. “Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.” ~ Unknown Author
49. “Perhaps someday I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.” ~ Sylvia Plath
50. “The heart was made to be broken.” ~ Oscar Wilde
51. “There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it’s the right unhappiness.” ~ Jonathan Franzen
52. “The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.” ~ Faulkner’s Artistic Vision: The Bizarre and the Terrible, William Faulkner
53. “You can’t keep a cool head when you’re drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.” ~ Margaret Atwood
54. “Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.” ~ Jeffrey Eugenides
55. “I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I’m still plucking seaweed out of my hair.” ~ Norman Rush
Conclusion
The aftermath of a lost friendship can be disheartening. Love can make you laugh and cry. If you have experienced the sorrowful aspect of relationships, these valuable sad quotes will teach you to take things in your stride and start a fresh chapter.