Sad Quotes About Life

60 sad quotes about life

1. Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome. –Fannie Flagg

2. Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. -Jerry B. Jenkins

3. Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul. –E.H. Chapin

4. Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell. –Henry Ward Beecher

5. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. –J.D. Salinger

6. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. –Mark Twain

7. Faking a smile is so much easier than explaining why you are sad. -Iona Mink

8. Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you. ­–Veronica Roth

9. Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. –Christopher Morley

10. I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. –Charlie Chaplin

11. I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. –C.S. Lewis

12. I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us. – Kazuo Ishiguro

13. I never got to fall out of love. I just had to move on. – Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

14. I wish I could go back to the day I met you and just walk away. – Unknown

15. I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are. – Steve Maraboli

16. If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn’t be filled? –Jodi Picoult

17. It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

18. It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. –J.K. Rowling

19. It’s amazing how someone can break your heart, and you can still love them with all the little pieces. –Ella Harper

20. It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. –Henry Rollins

21. Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher. -Maya Watson

22. Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. –Truman Capote

23. Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. –Margaret Mitchell

24. Long after I have give up, my heart still searches for you without my permission. – Rudy Francisco

25. Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. – Zelda Fitzgerald

26. Now, you are just a stranger with all my secrets. – Unknown

27. Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, ‘It might have been.’ –Kurt Vonnegut

28. One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness. -Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis

29. One thing you can’t hide is when you’re crippled inside. –John Lennon

30. Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them. –George Eliot

31. Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others. -Stephen R. Covey

32. So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. –E.A. Bucchianeri

33. Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. – Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

34. Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories. – Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

35. Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow. –Ernest J. Gaines

36. Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. – Mineko Iwasaki

37. Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear. –Joshua Wisenbaker

38. Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. –Leonardo da Vinci

39. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. –Harriet Beecher Stowe

40. The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. –Eudora Welty

41. The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. -Bob Marley

42. The worst feeling isn’t being lonely, it’s being forgotten by someone you’d never forget. -Helen Hywater

43. The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. -Carl Jung

44. There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. –Nicholas Sparks

45. There are years that ask questions and years that answer. –Zora Neale Hurston

46. There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. –Steve Maraboli

47. There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go. –Tennessee Williams

48. There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we were happy. –Dante Aligheri

49. Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody. –Stephen Chbosky

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

51. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. –J.K. Rowling

52. To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing. –Dorothy Thompson

53. To live in a hallucination of being loved is more painful than rejection. – Vinaya Panicker

54. We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim. -R.M. Drake

55. What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses. –John Irving

56. Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. – Rainer Maria Rilke

57. You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same. –Fannie Flagg

58. You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love. –Ayushee Ghoshal

59. You meet everyone twice in this life, when they come and when they go. –C.C Aurel

60. You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. –F. Scott Fitzgerald

61. You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again. –Maggie Stiefvater