Welcome to our collection of sad love quotes.
Love is a powerful emotion that can bring us immense joy and happiness, but it can also bring us deep pain and heartache.
When a relationship ends or a loved one is lost, it can be difficult to find the words to express the depth of our emotions. That’s where these sad love quotes come in.
Whether you’re struggling to move on from a past love or simply want to find solace in the words of others who have experienced similar heartbreak, these sad love quotes are sure to resonate with you on a deeply emotional level.
So grab some tissues, take a deep breath, and let these words speak to the pain in your heart.
Sad Love Quotes
“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt
“A long-lost love. A living, breathing embodiment of what might have been.”
― Jamie Ford
“It’s the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that’s worth having.”
― Katie Ashley
“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
― J.M. Barrie
“I miss him, and the pain of it is a yawning chasm, one into which I yearn to let myself fall.”
― Holly Black
“I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes
“Always – without hope – I’ve never had my love reciprocated ever.”
― Iris Murdoch
“Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.”
― Kellie Elmore
“What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain?”
― Amanda Grace
“In a love relationship, one person is usually at the helm. The one who loves more suffers the most.”
― Vincent Okay
“She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.”
― Julia Quinn
“So I learned not only that your loved one may be forbidden you, given away to someone else, but also that though you love someone they may run from you, and you may open your arms but they shall not come in.”
― Edward Carey
“Time seemed to stand still around me; the mornings just as cloudy and dark as the evenings, as if the sun had never decided to rise. There was no wind, like the world was holding its breath along with me, waiting for him to return.”
― Yvonne Woon
“Love, like acting, is a lonely pursuit.”
― Wyatt B. Pringle, Jr.
“If you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back… then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.”
― Sarah Cross
“Long after Clark had gone home, Solomon stayed up wondering if everyone falls in love with someone who can’t love them back.”
― John Corey Whaley
Someone should have told me that love is for those few brave who can handle the unbearable emptiness, the unbearable guilt and lack of oneself, because I lost myself to someone I love.”
― Charlotte Eriksson
“I decided I would never love anyone again because you just felt like an idiot when you put love out there and it didn’t come back your way.”
― Karen Tayleur
“Love needs reality. What is more terrible than the discovery that through a bodily appearance we have been loving an imaginary being. It is much more terrible than death, from death does not prevent the Beloved from having lived. That is the punishment for having fed love on imagination.”
― Simone Weil
“I can’t say what I was looking for exactly, though I was ever hopeful that he might come out and profess his love, save me, run away with me, solve all my problems.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh
“Some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it’s only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver.”
― Cassandra Clare
Relationships Hurt Quotes
“It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.”
― Susan Sontag
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
― Richard Puz
“I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love?”
― Victoria Aveyard
“The wounds of the past and the scars of the present don’t disfigure me in your eyes – because you know the price I pay for loving you.”
― John Geddes
“When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you’ll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.”
― Patrick Rothfuss
“It is far more painful to awake from a beautiful slumber and – in that brief period when the continuity of life is still lost to you – to reach across the bed for a hand that is not there.”
― E.O. Higgins
“Rejection, though – it could make the loss of someone you weren’t even that crazy about feel gut-wrenching and world-ending.”
― Deb Caletti
“She felt him more than life to her and knew him lost, and the frenzy, that makes a woman kill the man she loves, or fling vitriol to destroy the beauty she cannot have for all hers, possessed her lawless soul.”
― William Dean Howells
“I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.”
― Mary E. Pearson
“I had deluded myself throughout by the idea of reviving a secret love which did not exist at all.”
― Iris Murdoch
“This life is a constant suffering of being too much and still not enough.”
― Sherry Namdeo
“I died a lot
to live a little
with you”
― Yaghma Golroei
“Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.”
― Cesare Pavese
“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
Sad Love Quotes about Pain & Longing
“It doesn’t sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it’s possible, I know it’s not going to happen”
― Nicholas Sparks
“She knew too well the heartbreak of wanting love from someone who was not capable of giving it.”
― Julie Johnstone
“You’re the queen of pushing people away before they can say they like you. The queen of rejecting first so you can’t be rejected.”
― Maggie Ann Martin
“The biggest curse in life is not losing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.”
― Kiran Joshi
“What broke your heart so bad
That you had to close every door,
That you say you have a dark soul
And can’t utter the word ‘love’ anymore?”
― Sanhita Baruah
“Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.”
― Cassandra Clare
“Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile.”
― Mia Asher
“A person doesn’t know true hurt and suffering until they’ve felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.”
― Rose Gordon
“True love is many things and can survive the strongest and most painful of times. When love comes out the other side of a fire, it may be scarred forever, but this bruised love is somehow only greater for having survived the pain.”
― John Carter Cash
“I’ve enough pride never to let myself love a man who does not love me.”
― Leo Tolstoy
“Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.”
― Alysha Speer
“All good things come to an end and the pain of some endings isn’t worth the good things.”
― Emilyann Allen
“I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.”
― Alma Katsu
“Love bleeds you dry until the red organ ceases to beat.”
― Sonya Watson
“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”
― Scott Turow
“It’s hard to let go, especially after you’ve invested a few years. It’s hard to let go of who we imagined someone else was too. You loved him so you overlooked all the things that were obvious to everyone around you. We all do it.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn
“There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
― Nicole Krauss
“Love is like a flower. It’s upright when it’s in harmony and withered when it’s dead.”
― Dalia
“If only for a moment. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary person you loved.”
― James Hilton
“If you don’t receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”
― Robert Goolrick
Sad Love Quotes for How Love Hurts
“I miss everything about you
Can’t believe that I still want you
And after all the things we’ve been through”
― Colbie Caillat
“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
“I’ll never tell you to stop loving. You see, I believe in hopeless love. Oh yes. I believe in it with all my heart, though you may discount the heart of an old nanny like me. For real love brings pain. Real love means sacrifices and hurts and all the thousand shocks of life. But it also means beauty, true beauty.”
― Anne Elisabeth Stengl
“Among my stillness was a pounding heart.”
― Shannon A. Thompson
“What’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?”
― James Patterson
“You were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn’t want to be. That’s hard to let go.”
― Kristan Higgins
“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little.”
― Christopher Morley
“The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.”
― Faraaz Kazi
“When I look behind on all my younger times, I’ll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong.”
― John Mayer
“My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
“You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?”
― Nikita Gill
“Never be afraid to love. Just be careful who you love.”
― Carlos Wallace
“If you love something, let it go…”
― Karen Shreck
“I love walking in the rain because no one can see me crying.”
― Rowan Atkinson
“She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?”
― W. Somerset Maugham
“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.”
― Thornton Wilder
“Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”
― Christina Westover
“The thing about loving someone, is that yelling at them only feels good while you’re doing it – as soon as they’re gone, all you want to do is take it all back”
― Lauren Barnholdt
“You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. It’s not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?”
― Rumi
As you read through these sad love quotes, we hope that you find comfort in the words of others who have experienced similar heartache.
It’s important to remember that you are not alone in your pain and that it’s okay to take the time to grieve and process your emotions. Remember to be kind to yourself and seek support from loved ones as you navigate the ups and downs of love.
And above all, don’t give up on the possibility of finding happiness and love again in the future.