Sad Quotes about Love

When one falls in love, everything is beautiful; the word sorrow doesn't exist in one's dictionary. However, as is said, "For every hill, there's a valley". Same is the case with love. Misunderstanding, departure, fights, cheating, etc., all play the role of valleys.

Time is a true healer, but the initial phase is intolerable. Here are a few famous sad quotes about love, that might help your wounded heart heal faster.

"There is a time for departure, even when there's no certain place to go." ― Tennessee Williams

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

"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

"You wondered how you'd make it through. I wondered what was wrong with you. Because how could you give your love to someone else, yet share your dreams with me? Sometimes the only thing you're looking for, is the one thing you can't see." ― Vanessa Williams

"He taught me how to love, but not how to stop." ― Anonymous

"What happens when he's your Prince Charming, but you're not his Cinderella?" ― Anonymous

"Love that we can not have
Is the one that lasts the longest,
Hurts the deepest,
And feels the strongest." ― Anonymous

"And when I'm gone, just carry on, don't mourn
Rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice.
Just know that I'm looking down on you smiling,
And I didn't feel a thing, So baby don't feel no pain
Just smile back... " ― From the song 'When Im Gone' by Eminem

"Same old story that everybody knows: it's one heart holding on, one heart letting go." ― Anonymous

"And all the lonely nights and all the crushing scenes and all the pointless fights. Someone tell me what it means. Someone tell me why hearts break. I'm giving up on happy endings." ― Anonymous

"I'm so confused ... I mean, I want to let go ... I want to let go of all this pain, but I'm afraid I'll go insane ... he may come back, I have some hope, but with everything else, how can I cope? I want to let go ... I'm going to let go, but if I wait and see, will he come back to me?" ― Anonymous

"You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it." ― Henny Youngman

"I miss you a little, I guess you could say ... a little too much, a little too often, a little more everyday." ― John Michael Montgomery

"They ignore each other and look the other way, but they both know it wasn't supposed to end this way." ― Anonymous

"Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle
Everything I do is stitched with its color."
― W.S. Merwin, 'Separation'

"Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew." ― Anonymous

"There's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest ... your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo ... It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me." ― Anonymous

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: 'it might have been'." ― John Greenleaf Whittier

"I don't miss him; I miss who I thought he was." ― Anonymous

"A breakup is like a broken mirror.
It is better to leave it broken, than
hurt yourself trying to fix it."
― Anonymous

"A million words would not bring you back,
I know, because I've tried.
Neither would a million tears,
I know, because I've cried." ― Anonymous

"Its hard to pretend you love someone when
you don't, but its harder to pretend that
you don't love someone when you really do." ― Anonymous

"I'm sorry for crying over you,
because I said I wouldn't.
But I didn't promise you that,
because I knew it would be a promise
I would never be able to keep." ― Anonymous

"I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again, and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best, than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived." ― Margaret Mitchell

"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with." ― Anonymous

"I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see." ― Edmund Spenser

"I don't want to hear you say that I will understand someday. I don't wanna hear you say we both have grown in a different way. I don't wanna start over again. I just want my life to be the same, just like it used to be. Some days I hate everything, everyone and everything." ― From the song 'Wonderful', by Everclear

"It's so hard to show everyone that I'm doing
fine without you when deep inside, I'm not.
It's hard, because I have to smile when I
really can't hold back my tears ... cause as far
as I can see, you're doing fine without me ..." ― Anonymous

"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

It is very difficult to forget everything and move on. However it is said, "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the one which has opened for us." So, stop mourning about what is gone, something better is definitely waiting for you.

"I've accepted the fact that we can't be, but I've also accepted that you're going to be that one person I carry with me for the rest of my life, the one that is always going to make my heart jump a little and my stomach tie up in knots, no matter how happy I am otherwise ... no matter how long it's been." ― Anonymous