Sad Love Sayings & Quotes Directly from the Heart

• These sad love sayings may or may not make you cry …
• But perhaps there’s no need …?
• In any case: Please enjoy them

Sad Love Sayings: Is Love Sad?

No, not really. Love isn’t sad.

We know that it’s a popular belief, but we do not agree. What we perceive as sad is actually not love, but the apparent absence of love.

Since love is inherent in all of us (our most basic nature) love, is never truly absent.
Sometimes, though, it sure feels that way.

Some people actually tell us that they like the feeling of sorrow in connection with love. The find it romantic and tell me that it makes them feel alive. (If you feel that way, we may have a hint for you about your ego-type in the Enneagram: Check out Enneagram type 4).

In case you don’t feel that way, but would like the sadness to end, my advice for you is to embrace the sadness and truly feel it for a short period of time, and then let it
go. You can use a technique like the Let Go Method for that.

Anyway, no matter what your motivation for finding sad love quotes is, you’ll probably want to get on with it now …

The 5 Best + a Bonus One

The best one here is both true and sad – therefore it’s our bonus saying.

Because so many people let fear control their love life. One of the most common ways to do that is letting your feeling of jealousy control your actions. The result of doing so is predictable:

Love is like a flower: Let it grow freely. Once you pick it, it slowly dies.

It’s not just the absence of love that may hurt, of course. Losing everything but love can hurt, too (but also teach you something) as can having your illusions shattered can be a pain in the … heart:

I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was.

When you have nothing left but love, then for the first time you become aware that love is enough.

Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts.

A break up is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself trying to fix it.

Everyone makes mistakes. But why did yours have to be me?

The 5 Second Best

Heartbreaking: Painting of two eyes with tears and dove wings.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. (Shakespeare)

What ceremony can Shakespeare possibly be talking about? And another thing: There is a crucial difference between ‘love’ and ‘falling (or being) in love’; the latter being a
fascinating mix between very unconditional love (‘I love you no matter what’) and very conditional love (‘I love you because …’ or even ‘You must love only me’) – read more
about all that on the page Love.

Which hurts more: Thinking you should hate him or knowing you don’t?

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. (‘Charlie Brown’)

Forget love … I’d rather fall in chocolate.

I love it when it rains because then no one can tell how hard I am crying.

The 5 Third Best

Love quotes: Picture of girl looking longingly out the window. Girl daydreaming.

Third place goes to these sad love sayings:

I want you tonight, I want you tomorrow … unless I have you I’ll drown in my sorrow.

Love makes time pass; time makes love pass.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her. (Shakespeare)

He’s got me head over heels and I can’t even make him stumble!

The 5 Fourth Best

And last but not least, the fourth best sad sayings about love:

Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met.

I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ’tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
(Lord Alfred Tennyson)

Time does heal all wounds, but still there may be scars.

Should I smile because you’re my friend or cry because that’s all we’ll ever be?

I wish that you were here or that I were there, or that we were together anywhere!