Top 33 Saddest Quotes of All Time
It is 2 a.m., a moment when the world gets quiet
and your thoughts become real.
There is no one around you to get in your ear about fake positivity,
so you sit with your thoughts,
thinking about life and everything that’s in it.
You come to realize that life isn’t always sunshine,
and there are moments, events, and things that are just sad.
Moments like this make you aware and realistic about life.
You reach a new level of understanding
and accept that you can lose your loved ones,
get rejected by your dream company,
be betrayed by your closest and best friend,
or have your heart broken by the person you love the most.
That’s life.
I collected these 33 sad quotes not to make you sad
or change your perspective on life.
But to help you become wiser and emotionally resilient.
Here are the Top 33 Saddest Quotes of All Time:
1. Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.
You see this scenario every day.
People become famous and loved when they are dead.
But when they are alive, people don’t even check up on them.
2. There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
Emotional wounds hurt more than physical injuries
especially if it is done by someone you love
and care a lot about.
3. So it’s true that when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
Love is risky and can be a double-edged sword.
The feeling we experience in the presence of our lover
and the memories we create can turn into something
that haunts us and makes us grief.
4. We must understand that sadness is an ocean; sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.
Sadness can be an ocean that has no end.
We are always drowned in it when we lose someone
but sometimes, we have to keep on going
with our lives despite everything.
5. The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.
We build walls to protect ourselves emotionally
from pain, not realizing that to experience love,
we have to break down these walls and let people in.
6. The sadness will last forever.
Life always moves on, but sometimes
we carry the sadness with us forever
and learn to live with it.
7. Behind every beautiful thing, there’s been some kind of pain.
The irony of life is that our blessings and curses come together.
We have to accept this.
A deep heart carries heavy emotions
and feels deep sadness, just as a great thinker
thinks deeply and experiences great depression.
8. The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have.
You will keep on doing things, trying to make them
love you just to accept later
that they will never love you, and they never loved you.
9. The deepest wounds are often unseen.
10. It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
11. Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for is the one behind the trigger.
12. The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
13. The greatest pain in life is not the pain of being alone, but the pain of being forgotten by someone you can’t forget.
14. It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.
15. Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.
16. Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often, times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
17. A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
18. Love is like quicksand, the deeper you fall in, the harder it is to get out.
19. Sometimes the person you love doesn’t deserve you, and sometimes the person who deserves you doesn’t love you back.
20. The depth of love can be the depth of sorrow.
21. It’s hard to wait around for something you know might never happen, but it’s even harder to give up when you know it’s everything you want.
22. The worst kind of love is the one that makes you feel alone in a crowded room.
23. It’s amazing how someone can break your heart, but you still love them with all the little pieces.
24. Love is the hardest drug to quit, but it is even harder when it is taken away.
25. I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
26. The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.
27. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
28. The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.
29. Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.
30. A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.
31. Grief is the price we pay for love.
32. There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
33. Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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