Sad Love Quotes
Love is the most wonderful thing you can ever experience in your lifetime. Love makes you happy, it makes everything look more beautiful, you begin to be more positive about life and general and it pretty much drives how you live your life.
But when it begins to turn sour, all of the things mentioned above make a 180-degree turn. Love, at this stage, can be the saddest and most painful experience you can ever have.
Sad love quotes have been written over and over again by people who have undergone the same painful experience of losing love. They have been phrased and re-phrased but always, the undertone is the excruciating pain of discovering that love doesn’t always turn out the way you want it to.
Selection of Sad Love Quotes
On remembering how it was:
“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.” – Christina Rossetti
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.” – Dante
On keeping love out after a painful break-up:
“The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.” – Jim Rolm
On healing:
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” – Jean de la Fontaine
On finding a purpose for your sadness:
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything has a purpose in life.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
On realizing love is slowly dying:
“Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.” – Sara Teasdale
“The saddest thing in the world is loving someone who used to love you.” – Anonymous
“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
On letting go:
“A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.” – Anonymous
“Ever has it been known that loves knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” – Herman Hesse
“It is hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone if your heart still does.” – Anonymous
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