Top 101 Sad Quotes

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You might be feeling down and sad. However we are here to help. Check out the top 101 sad quotes that will help pick up your spirits.

#101 – 90. Sad Quote

101. I wish I could give you my pain just for one moment so you can understand how much you hurt me.— Mohsen El-guindy

100. It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. – Miguel de Unamuno

99. “What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska

98. “He taught me how to love, but not how to stop.” ― Anonymous

97. “Why do beautiful songs make you sad?’ ‘Because they aren’t true.’ ‘Never?’ ‘Nothing is beautiful and true.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

96. It hurts to leave a light on for nobody.— Graham Foust

95. You ruin your love because you don’t think you deserve anything good.— Warsan Shire

94. “Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.” – Joshua Wisenbaker

93. Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable. – Nicholas Sparks

92. “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

91. “The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire. – Lemony Snicket

90. “Tears are words that need to be written.” – Paulo Coelho

#89 – 80. Sad Quotes

89. Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. – Leonardo da Vinci

88. “The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” – Carl Jung

87. It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories. – Bonnie Blair

86. “Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.” ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

85. “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

84. “The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.” – Alain de Botton

83. There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. – Steve Maraboli

82. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” – E.A. Bucchianeri

81. “Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle Everything I do is stitched with its color.”― W.S. Merwin

80. “Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?” ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

#79 – 70. Sad Quote

79. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

78. “Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.” ― Lauren Conrad

77. Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. – Christopher Morley

76. “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

75. “It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” – Ella Harper

74. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” – Jim Rohn

73. “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” – Clive Barker

72. “There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.” – Dante Alighieri

71. 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

70. “We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.” – R.M. Drake

#69 – 60. Sad Quotes

69. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss

68. You meet everyone twice in this life, when they come and when they go.— C.C Aurel

67. “Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.” ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

66. “Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” – Kahlil Gibran

65. First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great. – Alyssa Milano

64. “Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.” – J.K. Rowling

63. “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

62. “She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

61. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” – Jonathan Safran Foer

60. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Kahlil Gibran

#59 – 50. Sad Quote

59. “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – Jose N Harris

58. “There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.” – C. Joybell

57. Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love. – Mario Teguh

56. “You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” ― Henny Youngman

55. “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley

54. “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

53. “Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative you can get beyond your pain or negativity.” – Yoko Ono

52. “Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in the dirt. There were more than two bodies buried here. Pieces of me that I didn’t even know were under the ground. Pieces of dad, too.” – Laurie Halse Anderson

51. The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. – Bob Marley

50. I cannot eat, I cannot drink; the pleasures of youth and love are fled away: there was a good time once, but now that is gone, and life is no longer life. – Plato

#49 – 40. Sad Quotes

49. “He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me.” ― Shannon A. Thompson

48. “I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.” ― Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story

47. “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” – Oscar Wilde

46. “You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love.” ― Ayushee Ghoshal

45. 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

44. “There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.” – Barbara Kingsolver

43. “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

42. “Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurt you. Finally it goes off and everything is darker than ever and all you are left with is the.. BURN!” ― Syed Arshad

41. “The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” – Nathaniel Branden

40. “There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go.” ― Tennessee Williams

#39 – 30. Sad Quotes

39. “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

38. When you think your first falling in love, just then you realize your falling out of love. – David Grayson

37. I am closest to my mother, as she is my rock, my pillar of strength, and my world. Not only has she stood by me through all times – happy, sad, and otherwise – but there have even been moments when I had completely lost hope, and her immense belief in me had lifted me up. – Amruta Khanvilkar

36. 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

35. Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love. – Mario Teguh

34. “Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.” – Taraji P. Henson

33. A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.  –Queen Victoria

32. 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

31. “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

30. “Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.” – Stephen R. Covey

#29 – 20. Sad Quotes

29. “Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.” – Brian Jacques

28. Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. – Stephen Chbosky

27. “I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?” ― Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story

26. “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

25. “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, The History of Love

24. It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. – Henry Rollins

23. The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung

22. Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever. – Mattie Stepanek

21. “There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.” – Nicholas Sparks

20. “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.” – Nikolai Gogol

#19 – 10. Sad Quotes

19. “People love each other for many reasons, not all of them good […]. They love each other because it’s easy. Or because they’re used to it. Or because they’ve given up. Or because they’re scared.” ― Nathan Hill

18. 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

17. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. – Rumi

16. “Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.” – Osho It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. – Henry Rollins

15. “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

14. “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” – Jean de La Fontaine

13. Sadness flies away on the wings of time. – Jean de La Fontaine

12. “I wonder if I could take back every ‘I love you’ ever said to you, would I do it?” ― Faraaz Kazi

11. It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories. – Bonnie Blair

10. Nothing is worse than when someone who’s supposed to love you just leaves.— Ava Dellaira

#9 – 1. Sad Quotes

9. 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

8. Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you’d clicked ‘Send’. – Faraaz Kazi

7. Just let me keep the last piece of my heart before you tear it all apart.— Lykke Li

6. It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. – Henry Rollins

5. “Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.”― David Levithan

4. There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It’s caused by the absence of you. – Ashleigh Brilliant

3. Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. – Leonardo da Vinci

2. “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

1.“It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.” ― Samuel Butler

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