Sad Love Quotes
That Bring Tears To Your Eyes

Sad love quotes are all about how painful love can sometimes be…whether you've broken up from someone, you're missing your loved one or you're suffering from unrequited love.

Below is a selection of sad love quotes that focus on all these themes.

'You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.' – Frank Crane

'I do not love thee! – no! I do not love thee! And yet when thou art absent I am sad.' – Caroline Norton

'Even as love crowns you shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.'- Kahlil Gibran

'Love is the sickness in which recovery is loss' – Pam Brown

'Short is the rapture of love, but eternal is the pain.' – S.Rossini

'Years of love have been forgot in the hatred of a minute.' – Edgar Allan Poe

'There are as many pangs in love as shells on the sea-shore.' – Ovid

'Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.' – Thomas Otway

'Where the love is great, the pain is great.' – Anon

'What a woman says to her lover should be written on air or swift water.' – Catullus

'Perhaps they were right in putting love into books…Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.' – William Faulkner

'When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.' – Heloise

'Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking round in the daytime, and falling into at night.' – Edna St Vincent Millay

'Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life' - Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

'To love is to suffer, to be loved is to cause suffering.' – Comtesse Diane

'Silently and hopelessly I loved you, at times too jealous and at times too shy. God grant you find another who will love you as tenderly and truthfully as I.' – Alexander Pushkin

'My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.' – Fiona McLeod

'Of all pains, the greatest pain is to love, and love in vain.' – George Granville, Lord Lansdowne

'Why was I made for Love and Love denied to me?’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also called No-more, Too-Late, Farewell.' – Dante Gabriel Rossetti

If you've been moved by this collection of sad love quotes why not read our selection of sad love poems and broken heart quotes ? Or take a look at our collection of romantic quotes, famous love quotes and sweet love quotes.

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