Collection of short sad sentences, short aphorisms on sadness and quotes to write or to say to those who feel grieved, or simply to read for personal reflection.
Short sad sentences
- Loneliness is listening to the wind and not being able to tell anyone.
- In an instant even the strongest light can turn into the deepest darkness as it has happened to us.
- Tears are not expressed by pain, but by its history.
- When you don't call me I feel the emptiness inside me and I would like to go out immediately to look for you. What infinite sadness my love but it is stronger than me.
- Crises and adversities often become an occasion for inner growth.
- Memories can excite but sometimes even hurt a lot, because they remind you of moments that can never return.
- The best moments of love are those of a quiet and sweet melancholy, where you cry and don't know what.
- The sun ignites memories, memories that go slowly but that will always remain in my heart.
- Life, at times, is really merciless towards our feelings ... I love you, yet, I must bear to see you with another!
- I would water the roses with my tears to feel the pain of their thorns and the red kiss of their petals.
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- It is sad to know that it is all over between us now and that our story will remain only a good memory.
- If you've never eaten with tears in your eyes, you don't know the taste of life. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
- There are those who wait for the rain to not cry alone.
- All changes, even the most anticipated ones, have their melancholy, because what they leave behind us is part of ourselves. You must die in one life before you can enter the next one. (Anatole France)
- My love for you is as great as your indifference to me is great. I hope things can change someday, because this situation makes me suffer damn.
- Life is like a pendulum that oscillates incessantly between boredom and pain, with fleeting intervals, and moreover illusory, of pleasure and joy. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- It is in our darkest moments that we must concentrate to see the light.
- The strangest thing in life is the total lack of agreement between theory and practice. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- Loneliness is a beautiful place to visit, but a bad place to live.
- Life is nothing but a long loss of all that you love. We leave behind a trail of pain. (Victor Hugo)
- Always smile ... even if it will be a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile there is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
- Melancholy of the past, joy of the present, repentance of the future ... this is life. (Jim Morrison)
Sad phrases about friendship
- When you lose a friend, you lose half of himself. (Jean-François Sénault)
- The sage is self-sufficient not in the sense that he wants to be without friends, but that he can be without friends; and this - may - means that, if he loses a friend, he endures with a calm mind. (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
- We must try to prevent the lacerations between friends, but, if they occur, we must behave in such a way that the flame of friendship seems to have burned itself out, and not that it has been suffocated. (Guide)
- Bad luck reveals those who are not actually friends, but who have been friends only out of interest: time detects both. (Aristotle)
- You lose everything when you lose a loyal friend. (Pierre Corneille)
- You have nothing to lose. It is not lost when you lose false friends. (Joan Jett)
- Many will be friends until you are happy, but when the bad weather comes, you will be alone. (Publius Ovid Nasone)
- Anyone who has become a friend out of convenience will end up being out of convenience. If you search for a profit in friendship, you will go against friendship in order to obtain it. (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
- Friendship diminishes when there is too much happiness on one side and too much bad luck on the other. (Isabella Kazimira Jagiello)
- A friend in power is a lost friend. (Henry Adams)
- A true friend is seen in times of need; in prosperity it is full of friends. (Euripides)
- Those who pride themselves on having conquered a multitude of friends, have never had one. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
- Anyone who has become a friend out of convenience will end up being out of convenience. (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
- To find a friend, you have to turn a blind eye; not to lose it, both. (Norman Douglas)
- Do not acquire friends quickly, and those you have acquired do not leave them quickly. (Solon)
- Those who consider friendship as a game of chess always lose the game in the end. (Ramon Eder)
- A friendship that ends has never even begun. (Publilio Siro)
- To find a friend, you have to turn a blind eye; not to lose it, both. (Norman Douglas)
- In the end we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
- In friendship you cannot go far if you are not willing to forgive each other for small defects. (Jean De La Bruyère)
- If a friendship stops being a friendship it was a false friendship. And if it was a false friendship it is good that it is over. (Stephen Littleword)
- Few friendships would survive if everyone knew what his friend said about him in his absence, although he spoke sincerely and without passions. (Blaise Pascal)
- I don't regret the people I lost over time, but I regret the time I lost with certain people, because people didn't belong to me, the years did. (Carl Gustav Jung)
Sad phrases about love
- There can be no profound disappointment where there is no deep love. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
- Love is the flower of life, and it blooms unexpectedly and without rules, and must be caught where it is found, and enjoyed for the short hour of its duration. (David Herbert Lawrence)
- If you were a tear, I wouldn't cry for fear of losing you. (Jim Morrison)
- Not being loved is just bad luck; the real misfortune is not knowing how to love. (Albert Camus)
- An old love is like a grain of sand, in one eye, which always torments us. (Voltaire)
- Here, you see, I fell in love twice in my life, but seriously, and both times I was sure that it would be forever and until death, and both times it ended and I didn't die . (Hermann Hesse)
- When a love ends, one of the two suffers. If no one suffers, it never started. If they both suffer, it is never finished. (Marilyn Monroe)
- There are abysses that love cannot overcome, despite the strength of its wings. (Honoré De Balzac)
- One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't say. (James Earl Jones)
- Those who do not love never have great joys; those who love often have great sadness. (Jean-Benjamin de Laborde)
- Love is the wisest of follies, a bitterness capable of suffocating, a sweetness capable of healing. (William Shakespeare)
- I went down, giving you my arm, at least a million stairs and now that you're not there, the emptiness is on every step. (Eugenio Montale)
- This is the monstrosity of love, lady, that the will is infinite, but its implementation is limited. (William Shakespeare)
- No one comes close to a broken heart without the high privilege of having suffered equally. (Emily Dickinson)
- You can forget the person you laughed with, never the one you cried with. (Khalil Gibran)
- Love does not know its depth until the hour of separation. (Kahlil Gibran)
- Have faith in love even when it makes you suffer. Don't close your heart. (Rabindranath Tagore)
- You don't love until you suffer. (Etienne Rey)
- The waste of life lies in the love that has not been able to give, in the power that has not been able to use, in the selfish prudence that has prevented us from taking risks and that, avoiding a displeasure, has made us miss happiness. (Oscar Wilde)
- Hell is the suffering of not being able to love anymore. (Fëdor Dostoevskij)
- It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved. (Alfred Tennyson)
- It happens for true love as for the appearance of ghosts: everyone talks about it, but few have seen them. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
