Culture and Lifestyle Quotes and Sayings 60 Sad Quotes That Will Get You Through The Worst Days This list of sad quotes about life, love, and death may provide some comfort and camaraderie during tough times, By Kaitlyn Yarborough Kaitlyn Yarborough Part of the Southern Living team since 2017, Kaitlyn Yarborough is a Georgia native living in Austin, Texas, who covers a wide variety of topics for both the magazine and website, focusing on culture and lifestyle content, as well as travel in the South. Southern Living's editorial guidelines Updated on April 26, 2024 Trending Videos Close this video player Photo: Ben Roberts Photography/Getty Images Sadness—never, ever, something that we actively summon or wish to feel—manages to find its way to us every now and then. It's a natural part of life. But sometimes it helps to know that others are going (or have been) through the same thing. Because that means that things will get better, start looking up. If you're experiencing tough times or dealing with loss, this list of sad quotes will, oddly enough, provide some comfort and camaraderie. 100 Best Life Quotes That Will Inspire You 01 of 05 Sad Quotes For Life Perspective Southern Living "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"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect." –Margaret Mitchell“Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher.” -Maya Watson"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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." –Mark Twain"Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody." –Stephen Chbosky“One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.” -Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis"The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." -Carl Jung "Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act." –Truman Capote"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more." –C.S. Lewis"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy." –Eudora Welty"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." –J.D. Salinger“I wish I could go back to the day I met you and just walk away.” - Unknown“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“To live in a hallucination of being loved is more painful than rejection.” - Vinaya Panicker 02 of 05 Sad Quotes About Death And Grief Southern Living "So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love." –E.A. Bucchianeri"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"Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them." –George Eliot"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." –Harriet Beecher Stowe"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." –J.K. Rowling"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew." –Henry Rollins"There is a time for departure, even when there's no certain place to go." –Tennessee Williams"You meet everyone twice in this life, when they come and when they go." –C.C Aurel"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you." –Veronica Roth"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"Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell." –Henry Ward Beecher 03 of 05 Sad Quotes About Love Southern Living "You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same." –Fannie Flagg"It's amazing how someone can break your heart, and you can still love them with all the little pieces." –Ella Harper"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, Never Let Me Go"There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you." –Steve Maraboli"To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever." –J.K. Rowling"To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing." –Dorothy Thompson"Now, you are just a stranger with all my secrets." - Unknown"I never got to fall out of love. I just had to move on." - "Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words"Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others." -Stephen R. Covey"Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories." - Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale“Love is so short, forgetting is so long." - Pablo Neruda, Love“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” - Bess Myerson 04 of 05 Sad Quotes About Loss Southern Living "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"You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love." –Ayushee Ghoshal"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"There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we were happy." –Dante AligherI"The worst feeling isn't being lonely, it's being forgotten by someone you'd never forget." -Helen Hywater"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. GainesNobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”- Zelda Fitzgerald"Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family." -Jerry B. Jenkins“Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.” - Rainer Maria Rilke“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” - Mineko Iwasaki 05 of 05 Sad Quotes Full Of Meaning Southern Living "Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear." –Joshua Wisenbaker"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.'" –Kurt Vonnegut"We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim." -R.M. Drake"Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome." –Fannie Flagg“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“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.” –Charlie Chaplin"One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside." –John Lennon"Faking a smile is so much easier than explaining why you are sad." -Iona Mink"There are years that ask questions and years that answer." –Zora Neale Hurston"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water." –Christopher Morley"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain." –Leonardo da Vinci“Long after I have give up, my heart still searches for you without my permission.” - Rudy Francisco“The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.” -Bob Marley“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 Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit