“It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.” – Miguel de Unamuno. Here are 40 Downcast Quotes That Will Ease Your Pain.
Downcast Quotes
1. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” – Jim Rohn
2. “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
3. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
4. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
5. “I wish I could give you my pain just for one moment so you can understand how much you hurt me.”— Mohsen El-guindy
6. “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
7. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” – George Eliot
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. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Kahlil Gibran
10. “Hearts are breakable. Even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.” – Cassandra Clare
11. “The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.” – Bob Marley
12. “You are supposed to dry my tears, not cause them….” – Unknown
13. “A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.” –Queen Victoria
14. “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
15. “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
16. “Missing someone special to you bring tears to your eyes, but remembering all the good times you had brings a smile to your face.” – Nishan Panwar
17. . “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
18. “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
19. “It still hurts that you’re doing completely okay, without me.” – Unknown
20. “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
Downcast Quotes
21. “Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.”– Joshua Wisenbaker
22. “There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go.” ― Tennessee Williams
23. “A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried.” – Unknown
24. “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
25. “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
26. “For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.” – John Greenleaf Whittier
27. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Richard Puz
28. “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” ― José N. Harris
29. “Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” – Violeta Parra
30. “Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” – Khalil Gibran
31. “Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.” – Aman Jassal
32. “Tears are words that need to be written.” ― Paulo Coelho
33. “The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
34. “Sadness is also a kind of defense.” – Ivo Andric
35. “Percy let me go, she croaked. You can’t pull me up. Never” ― Rick Riordan
36. “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
37. “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
38. “Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.” – Christina Westover
39. “Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?” ― Faraaz Kazi
40. “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
Downcast Quotes
41. “The clouds wept when my heart sang a song of sorrow.” – Sonya Watson
42. “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
43. “Rather than crying & 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
44. “It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” – Sara Teasdale
45. “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
46. “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
47. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss
48. “I’ll love you even when I can’t” “I’ll love you even when I shouldn’t” ― Colleen Hoover
49. “It hurts to leave a light on for nobody.”— Graham Foust
50. “Me wondering why they don’t say nothing about a kiss being salty as a tear.” ― Lindsay Hunter
51 “You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” ― Henny Youngman
52. “Sometimes you don’t realize how much you care for someone until they stop caring for you.” – Anonymous
53. “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
54. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”- Jim Rohn
55. “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
56. “There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.” – La Rochefoucauld
57. “Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.”― David Levithan
58. “Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned…” – William Butler Yeats
59. “Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.” – Mattie Stepanek
60. “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” – Charlie Brown
Downcast Quotes
61. “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” – Henry Rollins
62. “You meet everyone twice in this life, when they come and when they go.”— C.C Aurel
63. “Your absence has gone through me, like thread through a needle, everything I do is stitched with its color.”― W.S. Merwin
64. “Just let me keep the last piece of my heart before you tear it all apart.”— Lykke Li
65. “He taught me how to love, but not how to stop.” ― Anonymous
66. “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” – Jean de La Fontaine
67. “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
68. “Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.” – Mario Teguh
69. “You ruin your love because you don’t think you deserve anything good.”— Warsan Shire
70. “It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories.” – Bonnie Blair
71. “The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” – Carl Jung
72. “Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!” – Dita Von Teese
73. “First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great.” – Alyssa Milano
74. “Nothing is worse than when someone who’s supposed to love you just leaves.”— Ava Dellaira
75. “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
76. “Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” – Leonardo da Vinci
77. “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” – Stephen Chbosky