Love is a wonderful adventure, but it’s not without its bumps and bruises. You see, when we fall for someone, we’re also taking a chance that we might end up hurt or let down. These sad quotes about love are like a snapshot of this side of romance. They talk about heartbreak, unrequited love, and all the hard lessons learned when love doesn’t go as planned.
But going through the difficult times only makes us appreciate the good ones more. Remember, despite the rough patches, love should always uplift and empower you. Settling for less? No, thank you! So, let’s delve into these 50 sad love quotes and use them as reminders to make wiser choices when it comes to matters of the heart.
1. “Now, you are just a stranger with all my secrets.”
― Unknown
2. “I wish I had done everything on earth with you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. “Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair At Styles
4. “I fell in love at first sight. I wish I had taken a second look.”
― Unknown
5. “Just when I think you’re my beginning, I find out you’re my end.”
― Kim Smejkal, Ink in the Blood
6. “I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore.”
― Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour
7. “Of all the lies I heard, “I love you” was my favorite.”
— Unknown
8. “I haven’t been
very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone
said he loved me
and then slowly
changed his mind.”
― Charlotte Eriksson
9. “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.”
― Carroll Bryant
10. “There are plenty of ways to die, but only love can kill and keep you alive to feel it.”
― Leo Christopher
11. “I wish I could go back to the day I met you and just walk away.”
― Unknown
12. “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones
13. “I gave you my heart, I just didn’t expect to get it back in pieces.”
― Unknown
15. “He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
16. “I want a life which doesn’t have you. I want memories that don’t include you. I want a heart that never loved you. I want a mind that won’t think about you. And the last thing, a whole new me who never knew you.”
― Unknown
17. “That’s how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
18. “I hate it
the way the heart
takes too long
to figure out what the mind
already knows”
― R.H. Sin, Whiskey, Words & a Shovel
19. “I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
20. “I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so.”
― John Donne, The Complete English Poems
20. “To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
21. “I never got to fall out of love. I just had to move on.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words
21. “I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
23. “I didn’t leave because
I stopped loving you,
I left because the longer
I stayed the less I loved myself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
24. “It was a relationship that ended because it couldn’t go anywhere, because it never should have begun.”
― María Dueñas, The Time in Between
25. “Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
26. “You’ll always be the deepest scar on my heart.”
― Cassia Leo, The Way We Fall
27. “The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
—Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
28. “I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn’t end up with you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life
29. “I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn’t loved me enough to stay in it.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You
30. “It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
31. “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 witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anaïs Nin
32. “How do you
get over someone
who was never yours?
Who do you blame
when you’ve broken
your own heart?”
― Unknown
33. “’Do you love me?’ I ask.
In your hesitation, I found my answer.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure
34. “The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque
35. “It was always about you. Seldom me. And never us.”
― Michael Faudet, Cult of Two
36. “By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady, make note of this –
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker
37. “And that’s when I know it’s over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s the end.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her
38. “I died a lot
to live a little
with you”
― Yaghma Golroei
39. “The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
40. “I loved him the way some people are to be loved – from a distance.”
― Sanhita Baruah
41. “I am hopelessly in love with a memory.
An echo from another time, another place.”
― Michael Faudet
42. “There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.”
― Ranata Suzuki
43. “Every poem that I’ve created was yours. I thought they were mine, but they were yours. And I wish I could’ve kept them. And I wish I could’ve kept you.”
― Juansen Dizon, Confessions of a Wallflower
44. “I finally realized I was never asking for too much, I was just asking the wrong person.”
― Unknown
45. “I loved you because it was easier than loving myself.”
― Nayyirah Waheed
46. “We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”
― Ally Condie, Matched
47. “I think about you now and then
about all the mornings
that could have been.”
― Atticus
48. “We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Wake
49. “Believe it or not—it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
50. “The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
***If you notice that grief is interfering with your daily life or that you are experiencing symptoms of depression, don’t hesitate to reach out to a professional.
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