A list of Sad Love Quotes and Sayings. Love can sometimes hurt, and these powerful quotes can help express the feelings of a broken heart, or the sadness of a break-up.

 

“The hottest love has the coldest end.”

- Socrates

 

“It is better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all.”

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

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

- Kahlil Gibran

 

“There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy.”

- Jean Anouilh

 

“He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.”

- Buddha

 

“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.”

- William Blake

 

“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

 

“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

 

“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.”

- Javan

 

“Reason and love are sworn enemies.”

- Corneille

 

“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.”

- Thomas Moore

 

“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”

- G. K. Chesterton 

 

“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”

- Michael Leunig 

 

“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”

- Pascal 

 

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”

- Pearl S. Buck

 

“The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one, Yet the light of the bright world dies with the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.”

- Francis William Bourdillon

 

“Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.”

- Otomo No Yakamochi

 

“To fear love is to fear life,

and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”

- Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell

 

“Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.”

- David Grayson

 

“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”

- W. Somerset Maugham

 

“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”

- Mother Teresa

 

“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.”

- Bess Myerson

 

“The absence of love is the most abject pain.”

- Herr Lipp

 

“… See 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.”

- Gretchen Kemp

 

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”

- La Rochefoucauld

 

“I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.”

- Vita Sackville-West

 

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.”

- Charles Caleb Colton

 

“We conceal it from ourselves in vain–we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.”

- Blaise Pascal

 

“Pains of love be sweeter far

Then all other pleasures are”.

- John Dryden

 

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

- William Shakespeare

 

“They do not love that do not show their love.”

- William Shakespeare

 

“We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”

- Madame De Staël

 

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”

- George Sand

 

“A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.”

- Abraham Crowley

 

“To love is to suffer,

to be loved is to cause suffering.”

- Comtesse Diane

 

“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.”

- Toni Braxton

 

“Again, I wrote it with a second hand; But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she that dost in vain assay, A mortal thing so to immortalize.”

- Edmund Spenser

 

“I’d like to run away

From you,

But if you didn’t come

And find me …

I would die.”

- Shirley Bassey

 

“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.”

-William M. Thackeray

 

“Broken hearts die slowly.”

- Thomas Campbell

 

“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.”

- Joseph Conrad

 

“There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.”

- Cyril Connolly

 

“If I know what love is, it is because of you”

- Herman Hesse

 

“To meet, to know, to love—and then to part,

Is the sad tale of many a heart.”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

“It is better to be hated for what you are

Than to be loved for what you are not”

- Andre Gide

 

“Beauty more than bitterness

Makes the heart break.”

- Sara Teasdale

 

“The tears I wish to wipe away, will run unchecked for another day. Alas, that is the price I pay.”

- Mike Archer

 

“But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever.”

- Robert Burns

 

“Love is like quicksilver in the hand.

Leave the fingers open and it stays.

Clutch it, and it darts away.”

- Dorothy Parker

 

“I love you – those three words have my life in them.”

- Alexandrea

 

“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.”

- Robert Browning

 

“Thou art to me a delicious torment.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“It’s so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it’s not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it…. In our hands.”

- Jaka

 

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”

- Helen Keller

 

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”

- Charlie Brown

 

“I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.”

- Edith Piaf

 

Also have a look through our Sad Love Songs.