Sad Love Quotes - Sad Quotes about Love

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

• Sad Love Quotes
• Sad Quotes about Love
• Sad Love Quotes and Sayings
• Sad Love Quotes that Make You Cry
• Short Sad Love Quotes
• Sad Love Sayings
• Sad Love Quotes for Him
• Sad Love Quotes for Girls
• Sad Sayings about Love
• Very Sad Love Quotes

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Sad Love Quotes

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

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy,
even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous

When I see your smile, and I know it's not for me, that's when I'll miss you.
- Anonymous

Get my Daily Love/Relationship Quote each day by email or in your feed reader.

Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin

Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile, and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding, leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

Moving on is simple,
it's what you leave behind that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous

Don't cry because it's over,
smile because it happened.
- Anonymous

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

When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

Sad Quotes about Love

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ...
it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood

Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered.
It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid

Sad Love Quotes and Sayings

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rouchefoucauld

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

Breaking up is a natural evolution
when you try to figure out what you want in life.
If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction
and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
- Usher Raymond

A good-bye is never painful unless you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous

Falling out of love is very enlightening.
For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- Iris Murdoch

Love is a fire.
But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit
It begins with the vision to recognize when a job,
a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go.
It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
- Ellen Goodman

Sad Love Quotes that Make You Cry

If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you.
If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.
If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will.
- Anonymous

I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
- J. R. R. Tolkien

Never say goodbye when you still want to try,
never give up when you still feel you can't take it.
Never say you don't love the person anymore when you can't let go.
- Anonymous

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.
- Trey Parker

A man never knows how to say goodbye;
a woman never knows when to say it.
- Helen Rowland

Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach

Short Sad Love Quotes

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Anonymous

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony

To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson

Sad Love Sayings

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare

Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb

Sad Love Quotes for Him

True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

Sad Love Quotes for Girls

When I see your smile, and I know it's not for me,
that's when I'll miss you.
- Anonymous

True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato

Sad Sayings about Love

I won't miss you. I will miss who I thought you were.
- Anonymous

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken

Very Sad Love Quotes

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck.
If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
- Jean Kerr

Love is never lost.
If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

---

Thank you for visiting these Sad Quotes about Love. See more Sad Love Quotes.

See more Sad Quotes.

Please sign-up for my Free Daily Inspirational Quotes and Insights Email on the form below.