Sad Quotes about Life - Sad Quotes about Love

Let these Sad Quotes about life and love help you to get in touch with your sadness, and then find a way to let go and move on.

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been".
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are all so much together,
but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert Schweitzer

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By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

People do not like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller

We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus

One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken

The world is a mirror for anger,
which returns to its source as burning torment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung

There are three rules for dating:
1) Don't;
2) If you must, just be careful;
3) Forget the rules, your hormones will win anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw

The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein

The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy

A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein

It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy
of this period of social transition
was not the strident clamor of the bad people,
but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle
of horizon becomes smaller and smaller,
and as the radius approaches zero
it concentrates on one point.
And then that becomes his point of view.
- David Hilbert

I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love.
But then one suffers from not loving.
Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer;
to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love.
To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy.
Therefore, to be unhappy, one must love
or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
I hope you're getting this down.
- the movie Love and Death

I have a very pessimistic view of life.
You should know this about me if we're gonna go out.
You know, I - I feel that life is -
is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
Those are the two categories, you know.
The - the horrible would be like, um,
I don't know, terminal cases, you know,
and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life.
It's amazing to me. You know, and the miserable is everyone else.
That's - that's - so - so - when you go through life -
you should be thankful that you're miserable
because you're very lucky to be miserable.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall

A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)

Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken

It is much more painful to have lost
something you thought you had,
than never to have had it at all.
If feels as if our trust was dashed.
We are disappointed and we are angry;
but not quite sure at who to direct our anger.
Someone, perhaps "the system," perhaps God,
should have done better.
Most of all we are angry at ourselves -
even though we did our best -
and we are afraid.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become
that any kind of love story with a sad theme
is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
- Winona Ryder

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

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