Sad Love Quotations

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.

Those who are heartless, once cared too much.

What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.

The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

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

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.

Brokeback Mountain is a sad love story about two people who can't be together, and the reason that they can't be together is because being gay is a stigmatized thing. It would be interesting to have the same movie in which the two guys weren't in the closet and there was no shame about them being gay and they couldn't be together for other reasons. I still feel like we're a long way from that happening.

Parting is such sweet sorrow

Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.*

Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.

You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you're sad, love what you've got and remember what you had...Always forgive but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret, people change, things go wrong, just remember, life goes on.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned...