25 Sad Love Quotes to Help You Cope with Heartache

If everyone around you seems to have coupled up with a special someone and they're posting love quotes all over social media, the pain can be brutal. You’re happy for them (really!), but maybe you're alone and still nursing a broken heart. Maybe tomorrow you’ll have the strength to fall in love again, and you'll be posting love quotes about him and how happy you are, but for now you just want to wallow in your sorrows. My friend, you’ve come to the right place. Grab a box of tissues and get ready to nod (and sob) along as you read these sad love quotes, and maybe turn on some country breakup songs to really help you get out your emotions.

Once you've cried it out and felt all the feels, you have to get back out there. Wipe away those tears, maybe take a minute to read through some gratitude quotes to remind yourself of all the good things you have in your life (they're there, we promise), and get ready to fall in love! Or, to seek solace in the knowledge that you are enough, read through some self-love quotes.

“Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.”

“Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.”

“It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”

“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.”

“It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.”

“There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It’s caused by the absence of you.”

“When you think you’re first falling in love, just then you realize you’re falling out of love.”

“Since I can’t be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again.”

“Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally it goes off and everything is darker than ever and all you are left with is the…BURN!”

“I wonder if I could take back every ‘I love you’ ever said to you, would I do it?”

“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.”

“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.”

“There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go.”

“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”

“It hurts to leave a light on for nobody.”

“Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.”

“He taught me how to love, but not how to stop.”

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’”

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”