100+ Heartfelt Quotes of Love & Sadness

In the intricate tapestry of human emotions, love and sadness often weave together, creating a poignant backdrop to our lives. Whether it's the bittersweet end of an enduring relationship or the unrequited affections that simmer beneath the surface, love's melancholy side has inspired countless expressions. This article delves into the world of love's sad quotes, providing solace, reflection, and understanding for those navigating through waves of heartache. Through ten distinct themes, explore words that have been crafted to resonate with the depths of longing and the echoes of goodbye.
"Sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together." - Marilyn Monroe
"The heart was made to be broken." - Oscar Wilde
"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart." - Washington Irving
"You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them... but still move on without them." - Mandy Hale
"The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever." - Carroll Bryant
"The hottest love has the coldest end." - Socrates
"Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable." - L. Frank Baum
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." - Khalil Gibran
"A broken heart is the worst. It's like having broken ribs. Nobody can see it, but it hurts every time you breathe." - Unknown
"Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order for us to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that we are not what others assumed we were." - Jean-Yves Leloup
"The worst part of falling for someone you know you're not right for is that you know you shouldn't... but you do anyway." - Unknown
"To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves." - Federico García Lorca
"The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone when you've made them your eternity." - Sanober Khan
"There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments." - Georgette Heyer
"Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart." - Christina Westover
"Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport." - Zayn Malik
"It's terrible to love something that death can touch." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion." - Javan
"It's hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember." - Unknown
"Crying over someone who will never cry over you is a waste of time." - Unknown
"The hardest thing is when you run out of reasons to stay but cannot find a reason to leave." - Unknown
"In the arithmetic of love, one love plus one heart can equal none." - Eva Gabor
"Sometimes you have to forget what you feel and remember what you deserve." - Unknown
"Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile." - Mia Asher
"You know you really love someone when you can't hate them for breaking your heart." - Unknown
"Love means exposing yourself to the pain of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust." - Renita Weems
"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." - G.K. Chesterton
"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell
"I could never hate you for not loving me anymore, but I hate myself for still loving you." - Unknown
"A situation in which the both of us are losers for winning." - Unknown
"Moving on is not about never looking back. It's about taking a glance, knowing that moment hurt but will never hurt again." - Unknown
"The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness without your presence." - Unknown
"It's amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces." - Ella Harper
"You are a memory that needs to be forgotten." - Unknown
"Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul, there is no separation." - Rumi
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." - A.A. Milne
"It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday." - Boyz II Men
"Goodbye always makes my throat hurt." - Charlie Brown
"Every goodbye always makes the next hello closer." - Unknown
"The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last." - Moira Rogers
"Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I'll miss you until we meet again." - Unknown
"Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it." - Trey Parker
"Though I am proud of who we were, I am regretful of who we’ve become." - Unknown
"Farewell, dearest friend, never to see you more. You have been caught in the snare of an enemy's plot, and crushed in the coil of returning evil." - Mary Shelley
"Goodbye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be." - Walt Disney
"Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow." - William Shakespeare
"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness." - Norman Cousins
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." - Mother Teresa
"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better." - Henry Rollins
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for." - Dag Hammarskjold
"No one is ever alone, true love endures all tests in this world and beyond." - Unknown
"Sometimes you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself." - Unknown
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself." - Michel de Montaigne
"Loneliness is not a lack of company, loneliness is a lack of purpose." - Guillermo Maldonado
"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amidst all the haphazard marvel of infinity's infinite surprises, there is no word only half as powerful as loneliness." - E.A. Bucchianeri
"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time when you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony." - Douglas Coupland
"I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone." - Robin Williams
"Sometimes you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out." - Unknown
"I crave a love so deep the ocean would be jealous." - Pablo Neruda
"The desire of love is to give. The desire of longing is to receive." - Unknown
"The yearning for an absent beloved is the same, no matter the distance, nor the reasons for the absence." - Unknown
"To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
"Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall." - Doug Fetherling
"I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Even when love isn’t enough, somehow it is." - Stephen King
"Longing is the agony of the physical absence when that emotion is desired." - Unknown
"Cravings are what inspires us to touch the untouchable and to fall for that which is not meant to be ours." - Unknown
"If longing and yearning are created via distance, the heart should inevitably grow fonder through space apart." - Unknown
"What the heart wants is priceless, the yearning and aching to belong." - Unknown
"The heart’s passionate memories will cling to you forever." - Unknown
"Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted." - John Lennon
"Time doesn't heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go." - Roy T. Bennett
"There are memories that time does not erase. Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable." - Cassandra Clare
"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Time can be a great healer, but it is a terrible beautician." - Unknown
"Time we have lost in yearning. We can never make it up, the precious hours are slipping away." - Unknown
"Lost time is never found again." - Benjamin Franklin
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot." - Michael Altshuler
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
"It's funny how time can heal. It's also funny how time can carve in your soul the things the heart remembers." - Unknown
"Time expands, then contracts, and in tune with the stirrings of the heart." - Haruki Murakami
"The tragedy of time is that it inevitably passes." - Unknown
"Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love." - Maza Dohta
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene
"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity." - Hippocrates
"The only cure to grief is to grieve." - Earl Grollman
"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears." - John Vance Cheney
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows." - Unknown
"Healing isn’t linear; it zigzags, backtracks and somersaults through our days. Let it." - Unknown
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." - Paul Boese
"Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and there’s got to be a way through it." - Michael J. Fox
"Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forward." - Søren Kierkegaard
"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." - Charles Dickens
"Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing." - Jennifer Armentrout
"Everything that happens to us leaves some trace behind; everything contributes imperceptibly to make us what we are." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top." - Roy T. Bennett
"Just because we don’t talk anymore doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten about you. It doesn’t mean I no longer care. Truth is, I still do." - Unknown
"The remembrance of past sorrow is joyful." - Alfred de Musset
"Even a broken reflection is beautiful, and shattered shards can still shine bright." - Unknown
"In the shadows of reflection lies enlightenment." - Unknown
"The past is a lesson for the present." - Unknown
"Even flowers can grow in the shade of despair." - Unknown
"After all the falls and hardships, never forget to hold onto beautiful memories." - Unknown
"The ones that love us never really leave us, you can always find them." - J.K. Rowling
"Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails." - 1 Corinthians 13:7-8
"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." - Barbara De Angelis
"True love bears all, endures all, and triumphs!" - Dada Vaswani
"Where there is great love, there are always miracles." - Willa Cather
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
"Love is like a river, never ending as it flows, but gets greater with time." - Unknown
"The love we give away is the only love we keep." - Elbert Hubbard
"Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion." - Dylan Thomas
"True love doesn’t need proof. The eyes told what the heart felt." - Toba Beta
"The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Love is not what you say. Love is what you do." - Unknown