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Sad Quotes

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Last updated: October 18, 2023

18 Sad Quotes organized by Most Popular

“The saddest word in the whole wide world is the word almost.

He was almost in love. She was almost too good for him. He almost stopped her. She almost waited. He almost lived. They almost made it. ”
— Nikita Gill, Your Soul Is A River
Tagged: Almost, Sad
“I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me.”
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Tagged: Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Sad, Finding Yourself, Relationships
“We are all so afraid. We are all so alone. We all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.”
— David Shields, How Literature Saved My Life
Tagged: Alone, Love, Sad
“Tell me again about the part where grief is not my name.”
— Brenna Twohy, Untitled
Tagged: Grief, Break Up, Sad, Spilled Ink, Poetry, Depression
“He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.”
— Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With
Tagged: Endings, Starting Over, New Beginnings, Sad, Pain
“You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Loneliness, Break Up, Sad, Heartbreak, Love, Relationship, Abandonment
“Not knowing how to grieve can poison / like a directionless dart.”
— Brenda Shaughnessy, So Much Synth
Tagged: Pain, Loss, Grief, Death, Sad
“There's a dark cloud hanging over my heart
I can't see where it ends, or where it starts.
I should get over you, but baby, it's so hard,
with this dark cloud hanging over my heart.”
— Miranda Lambert, I Just Really Miss You
Tagged: Getting Over You, Pain, hurt, Sad, heart
“I have never loved without causing harm.”
— Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition): The Official Script Book of the Original West End Production
Tagged: Love, emotions, Heartbreak, Sad, Lonely
“I felt her absence. It was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. You wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.”
— James Dashner, The Scorch Trials
Tagged: Absence, Break Up, Sad, Heartbreak, Abandonment
“It hurts that I can be so full of him while he’s so empty of me.”
— David Levithan, Another Day
Tagged: Sad, Heartbreak, Break Up, Emptiness
“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Break Up, Sad, The End, Relationships, Moving On
“In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again.”
— Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition): The Official Script Book of the Original West End Production
Tagged: Depression, Sad
“Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion
Tagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, heart, Secret, Sorrows, Misery, cold, Sad
“And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me. It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Grief, Sad, expression, Crying, Life, Heartbreak
“Yet writing a poem about something painful, she has discovered, can be her way of digesting it. 'One of the things I’ve learned is, if we try and put sadness off, it just waits. And in my experience, running away from sadness doesn’t do anybody any good.'”
— Frieda Hughes, Frieda Hughes: ‘I felt my parents were stolen’
Tagged: Poetry, Writing, Literature, Pain, Sad, Loneliness, Depression
“We spoke endlessly about everything and nothing. Now, I cannot even remember the sound of your voice.”
— Michael Faudet, Dirty Pretty Things (Michael Faudet)
Tagged: Break Up, Love, Sad, Relationships, Dating
“You don't know distance until you've shared your bed with somebody who's falling out of love with you.”
— Beau Taplin, via twitter.com
Tagged: Distance, Love, Falling Out Of Love, Heartbreak, Growing Pains, Midlife Crisis, Sad, Pain of Heartbreak