Here are 30 quotes about love and the sadness it can sometimes bring, alongside their respective authors:
- “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” — Ernest Hemingway
- “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.” — Stephen King
- “I wish I could turn back the clock. I’d find you sooner and love you longer.” — Unknown
- “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.” — C.S. Lewis
- “I knew it wasn’t too important, but it made me sad anyway.” — J.D. Salinger
- “One day you’ll love me as I loved you. One day you’ll think of me as I thought of you. One day you’ll cry for me as I cried for you. One day you’ll want me, but I won’t want you.” — Unknown
- “There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you.” — Steve Maraboli
- “Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” — Lamartine
- “Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” — Hannah Arendt
- “Watching someone you love… love someone else is one of the most painful experiences you will go through.” — Unknown
- “It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” — Ella Harper
- “The hardest part about walking away from someone is the part where you realize that, no matter how slowly you go, they will never run after you.” — Unknown
- “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.” — Anaïs Nin
- “Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.” — Bette Davis
- “Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.” — Unknown
- “The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” — William Faulkner
- “You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.” — Fannie Flagg
- “The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.” — Margaret George
- “You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” — Henny Youngman
- “The heart was made to be broken.” — Oscar Wilde
- “I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.” — Emily Brontë
- “So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” — E.A. Bucchianeri
- “They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.” — Cassandra Clare
- “Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.” — Toni Morrison
- “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” — Bette Davis
- “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” — Henry Rollins
- “We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.” — R.M. Drake
- “To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.” — J.K. Rowling
- “It hurts because it mattered.” — John Green
