111 Sad Relationship Quotes To Help You Cope With Your Feelings

It is hard to get over a breakup, so you seek comfort in sad relationship quotes that seem to validate everything you are going through at that moment. We all experience deep sadness when we lose someone we love or experience conflict and disagreement in our relationship. Yet, we must remember that pain and sadness will always accompany heartfelt experiences. Check out our selection of 111 sad relationship quotes and sayings to help you cope with your feelings. Scroll down.

Sad Long-Distance Relationship Quotes

1. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle Onassis
2. “My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing the beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive – I’ll find love again.” ― Paulo Coelho
3. “It’s the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that’s worth having.” – Katie Ashley
4. “Missing someone special to you brings tears to your eyes, but remembering all the good times you had brings a smile to your face.” – Nishan Panwar
5. “I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.” – Gayle Forman
6. “Just because we can’t be together doesn’t mean I don’t love you.” – Cecily von Ziegesar
7. “One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you… then you’re gonna hate yourself for letting me go.” – Aubrey Drake Graham
8. “The worst feeling is not being lonely. It’s when someone makes you feel special, then suddenly leaves you and you have to pretend you don’t mind at all.” – Nishan Panwar
9. “I wore your promise on my finger for one year. I’ll wear your name on my heart till I die. Because you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.” – Coco J. Ginger
10. “If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart’s breaking.” – Thomas Otway
11. “I felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.” – James Dashner
12. “I miss the time when you just wanted to spend every second of your life with me.” – Anonymous
13. “Nothing is worse than when someone who’s supposed to love you just leaves.” – Ava Dellaira
14. “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” – Stephen Chbosky

Quick Tip

Arrange virtual dates and write letters to each other to close the intimacy gap in a long-distance relationship.

Sometimes, good things fall apart for better things to happen. Try to accept what life has taken away, let go of the person who broke your heart, and have faith in what will come together next.

Sad Breakup Quotes

15. “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
16. “Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.” – Faraaz Kazi
17. “Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.” – David Levithan
18. “It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” – Ella Harper
19. “Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.” – Joshua Wisenbaker
20. “You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.” – Johnny Depp
21. “Losing someone hurts but if you truly love them you should let them go, one day you’ll be reunited.” – Anonymous
22. “I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” – H.C. Paye
23. Love is not always pink or sweet like honey. Yes, love can become sorrowful, too. And for those moments of sadness, here are a few quotes and phrases to help heal your broken heart.

Sad Love Quotes

24. “If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”– Michael Bassey Johnson
25. “When you think your first falling in love, just then you realize you’re falling out of love.” – David Grayson
26. “And in the end, I said you would love me. We’re in the end and there’s only one of us here.” – Dominic Riccitello
27. “My mistake was making you a priority when I was your second choice.” – Anonymous
28. “Hearts are breakable. Even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.” – Cassandra Clare
29. “Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile.” – Mia Asher
30. “I wonder if I could take back every ‘I love you’ ever said to you, would I do it?” – Faraaz Kazi
31. “You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love.” – Ayushee Ghoshal
32. “It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.” – Miguel de Unamuno
33. “The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.” – Charlaine Harris
34. “Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.” – Aman Jassal
35. “The worst feeling in the world is when you can’t love anyone else because your heart still belongs to the one who broke it.” – Anonymous
36. “I cannot eat, I cannot drink; the pleasures of youth and love are fled away: there was a good time once, but now that is gone, and life is no longer life.” – Plato
37. “Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.”– Mark Haddon
38. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Richard Puz
39. “Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” – Violeta Parra
40. “Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” – C.S Lewis
41. “We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
42. “Never lie to someone who trusts you, and never trust someone who lies to you.” – Anonymous
43. “Relationships fail because people take their own insecurities and try and twist them into their partner’s flaws.” – Baylor Barbee
44. “I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.” – Sara Evans
45. “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” – Carroll Bryant
46. “Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” – Khalil Gibran
47. “Sadness is also a kind of defence.” – Ivo Andric
48. “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
49. “Rather than crying and craving for those who left our path during dark moments of our life, lets spend some time to thank them who stood and helped us to pass those dark paths.” – Nehali Lalwani
50. “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
51. “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – José N. Harris
52. “Tears are words that need to be written.” – Paulo Coelho
53. “Percy let me go, she croaked. You can’t pull me up. Never” – Rick Riordan
54. “Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?” – Faraaz Kazi
55. “You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” – Henny Youngman
56. “You meet everyone twice in this life, when they come and when they go.” – C.C Aurel
57. “Just let me keep the last piece of my heart before you tear it all apart.” – Lykke Li
58. “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” – Jean de La Fontaine
59. “It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories.” – Bonnie Blair
60. “Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” – Leonardo da Vinci
61. “A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.” – Queen Victoria
62. “It hurts to leave a light on for nobody.” – Graham Foust
63. “As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.” – Tabitha Suzuma

64. “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” – Henry Rollins
65. “Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
66. “Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.” – Mattie Stepanek
67. “Last night I took all my sorrows, writing on the wall of the room, just then I kept sleeping and the wall kept crying.” – Anonymous
68. “He taught me how to love, but not how to stop.” – Anonymous
69. “How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn’t he catch my falling star? I wish I didn’t wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.” – Tony Braxton
70. “You ruin your love because you don’t think you deserve anything good.” – Warsan Shire
71. “The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” – Carl Jung
72. “Since I can’t be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again.” – Susan Polis Schutz
73. “People love each other for many reasons, not all of them good […]. They love each other because it’s easy. Or because they’re used to it. Or because they’ve given up. Or because they’re scared.” – Nathan Hill
74. “He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me.” – Shannon A. Thompson
75. “Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you’d clicked ‘Send’.” – Faraaz Kazi
76. “Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.” – Nicholas Sparks
77. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.” – Anais Nin

78. “It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.” – Samuel Butler
79. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” – Jim Rohn
80. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Kahlil Gibran
81. “There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go.” – Tennessee Williams
82. “The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
83. “The clouds wept when my heart sang a song of sorrow.” – Sonya Watson
84. “Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.” – Christina Westover
85. “Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” – Mandy Hale
86. “The way to my heart was shattered when you left me, but I was glad because your memories were invulnerable, locked inside my heart.” – Anmol Rawat
87. “It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” – Sara Teasdale
88. “I understand that if you have never suffered a broken heart, then you have never really known what it is to truly be alive.” – Patti Roberts
89. “First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great.” – Alyssa Milano

Pro Tip

If you feel sad and hurt in your relationship, give yourself a break from everything and try to process your emotions. This might help you gain a better perspective of your situation and think about the next step to take in your relationship.

90. “You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.” – Kirsten Dunst

91. “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” – Charlie Brown
92. “The worst feeling in the world is knowing you’ve done everything you can to show someone you love them, and yet they still choose someone else over you.” – Bernajoy Vaal
93. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
94. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
95. It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. – George Eliot
96. “The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.” – Bob Marley
97. “I’ll love you even when I can’t, I’ll love you even when I shouldn’t” – Colleen Hoover
98. “Sometimes you don’t realize how much you care for someone until they stop caring for you.” – Anonymous

99. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” – Jim Rohn
100. “There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.” – La Rochefoucauld
101. “Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned…” – William Butler Yeats

Sad Quotes About The Pain In Love

102. “A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.” – J.S.B. Morse
103. “There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It’s caused by the absence of you.” – Ashleigh Brilliant
104. “I wish I could give you my pain just for one moment so you can understand how much you hurt me.” – Mohsen El-guindy
105. “Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.” – Stephen R. Covey
106. “The sharpest pain a heart can know is the pain of loving someone who doesn’t love you back.” – Nicholas Sparks
107. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” – Ernest Hemingway
108. “Every time I kiss your memory, I taste the pain of your absence.” – Christopher Poindexter
109. “The scars of love remind us that we lived, we were touched, and we did not flinch from the pain.” – Khalil Gibran
110. “The memory of love lost is like a rose thorn: beautiful and painful.” – Thomas Moore
111. “The pain of love reminds us that we are capable of great feeling, and that is a gift, even if it comes with heartache.” – Helen Fielding

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I express my hurt feelings?

It might be hard to tell someone they have hurt your feelings. You might be at a loss for words or ways to calm yourself down. The best way to express your hurt feelings is through open and honest communication.

How do you tell your boyfriend you are sad over text?

Here are some texts you can send your boyfriend when you’re having trouble expressing your feelings.
• I’ll reach out once I’ve had time to process my feelings about this.
• I am feeling down in the dumps and just need some space.
• Can you call me? I’m feeling low and hearing your voice will make me feel better.

Sometimes, you just have to feel your emotions. Watch this video compilation of heartfelt, sad relationship quotes that can resonate with your unspoken feelings, help you express yourself and allow you to accept your grief and heartbreak with grace.

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