The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad. — John Mayer
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. — Mercedes Lackey
The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul. — Yasmina Khadra
What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal. — Nina Simone
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. — Louis E. Boone
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. — John Steinbeck
This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic. — Lorrie Moore
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. — Woody Allen
It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories. — Bonnie Blair
I fell in love with melancholy — Edgar Allan Poe
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. — Alexander Theroux
Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe. — Samuel Morse
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. — Samuel Richardson
Sad Relationship Image Quotes
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Feeling Sad Relationship Quotes
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. — Johnny Depp
You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you — Tablo
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss. — Henri Nouwen
It's nice to be with someone, but I don't think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad. — Kristin Davis
When someone truly cares about you, they make an effort, not an excuse.
It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true. — Haruki Murakami
It's, like, you know, if you're sad, it's a way of connecting with other people. And we - a lot of times we sort of feel embarrassed by being sad, and we go off by ourselves to hide and cry by ourselves. But, really, it's a way of re-establishing relationship. — Pete Docter
The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad. — Jessica Capshaw
Whenever I'd feel angry or sad, I'd keep it to myself. I didn't want to upset or burden anyone with my problems. No wonder I felt lonely and isolated in my relationships, since I never allowed anyone to get to know the full me with all the shadows and sorrows. — Doreen Virtue
Long Distance Sad Relationship Quotes
Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. — Erica Jong
The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.
True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart — Helen Keller
Wherever you are you will always be in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. — Unknown Author
God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.
Sadly when I want someone to hold me and tell me everything is going to be alright, I have no one. I miss you so much and I wish there was someone to love me when I am down. — Shane Johnson
But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby. — Daniel Handler
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him — H. L. Mencken
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away. — Erica Jong
Sad Love Quotes
beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. — Bob Marley
How sad, a heart that
does not know how to love, that
does not know what it is to be drunk with love.
If you are not in love, how can you enjoy
the blinding light of the sun,
the soft light of the moon? — Omar Khayyam
On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . . — Mother Teresa
Tears are words the heart can't express — Gerard Way
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. — A. A. Milne
If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. — Jim Henson
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. — Mother Teresa
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter. — Bertolt Brecht
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith
Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day. — Norton Juster
Show respect even to people who don't deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.
I feel like relationships are a beautiful thing, period. Relationships can be really beautiful, they can be really hard, they can be really rewarding, or they can be bad relationships where it's really detrimental and hurtful, but that's life, period. — J. Cole
I want to fall in love, I think. I've never. I know. Everyone I know's been in love or in relationships now and... There's only ever been... there's been people telling me they love me, but it freaks me out and I just run, run. I think I'm a bad girlfriend. — Cara Delevingne
However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside. — Deepak Chopra
I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? — Nicholas Sparks
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship. — Harville Hendrix
What would you have to sacrifice to have what you really want? Your social life? Relationships? Credit cards? Free time? Sleep? Now answer this question: What are you willing to sacrifice? If those two lists don’t match up, you don’t want it badly enough. — Tim Grover
Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person. — Wayne Dyer
Broken Relationship Quotes
Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives. — Henri Nouwen
My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. — Kurt Cobain
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. — Violeta Parra
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger — Sara Evans
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. — Nicholas Sparks
Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that. — Johnny Depp
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall. — Jodi Picoult
Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself. — Oprah Winfrey
Relationship Issue Quotes
I don't dislike Matt Lindland. I didn't blackball him from the UFC, either. Matt Lindland is a good guy and I've never had a personal issue with him. — Dana White
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships. — Lloyd Alexander
We will keep facing the same test until we learn the lesson we are meant to learn. The same situations, relationships, issues will keep arising in our lives until we recognize what we are supposed to take away. — Jay Shetty
Being who we are requires that we can talk openly about things that are important to us, that we take a clear position on where we stand on important emotional issues, and that we clarify the limits of what is acceptable and tolerable to us in a relationship. — Harriet Lerner
The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship. — Henry Cloud
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. — Milton Glaser
Today I will refuse to jump into the middle of others' affairs, issues, and relationships. I will trust others to work out their own problems, including the ideas and feelings they want to communicate to each other. — Melody Beattie
The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate. — Hillary Clinton
The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women. — Deborah Tannen
All our relationships, especially the deep ones, stir up the deepest issues for us that we need to confront and work with. — Shakti Gawain
Difficult Relationship Quotes
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. — Barbara De Angelis
It is difficult for two long-nosed lovers to kiss. — African Proverbs
Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues. — Doreen Virtue
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person. — Paul Watzlawick
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. — Denis Waitley
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving. — Joan Bauer
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find. — Gustave Flaubert
It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him. — Kate Beckinsale
The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them. — Sue Johnson
Failed Relationship Quotes
Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining. — James Hillman
Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones. — Steve Martin
Relationships end, but they don't end your life. — Steve Martin
When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle. — Shannon Alder
When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there. — Julia Roberts
If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada. — Mary Karr
Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free. — Judith Lewis Herman
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth — Theodor Reik
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. — Marian Keyes
I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to. — David Suchet
Relationship Struggle Quotes
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship. — A. Philip Randolph
When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself. — Deepak Chopra
When you let God be God you can let humans be humans. When we place God in His rightful place in our lives, we don't struggle so much when human relationships let us down. — Joshua Harris
A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself. — Gary Zukav
The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization. — Dan B. Allender
The moment love becomes a relationship, it becomes a bondage, because there are expectations and there are demands and there are frustrations, and an effort from both sides to dominate. It becomes a struggle for power. — Osho
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention. — Malcolm Fraser
The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the large body of evidence about the actual complexity of the relationship between organisms and their resources. — Richard Lewontin
Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex. — Mark Kurlansky
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. — Oprah Winfrey
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Sure, I’m sad, but I’m not looking to soothe that sadness by replacing it with a new relationship. Women are allowed to be sad, and they’re allowed to be single, and they don’t need to hear that one day a man is going to make it all go away by telling her she is good enough again. She’s good enough as she is. — Charlotte Green
When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer. — John Gray
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves. — Francoise Sagan
Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit. — Queen Elizabeth II
The sociological evidence of the contagion of happiness and sadness suggests something quite remarkable: of all your relationships, of all the people capable of making you happiest or irritating you the most, those who have the greatest effect on your mood and even your state of health are those closest to hand. — Lynne McTaggart
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it. — Justin Timberlake
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. — Margaret Mitchell
If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be. — Tom Hardy
Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling. — Graham Greene
You develop relationships with people, and suddenly a family of actors and crew that you became so close to are now not around anymore. I'm not too sad about it because I got to move on to something else, but it's sad the way these things turn out. — Mark Pellegrino
Better to discuss everything out in the open while you're in love, then if or when the relationship sadly ends. It's called Full Disclosure Before The Fact. — Gene Simmons
The warm love has the coldest end. — Socrates
I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last — Nicholas Sparks
I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time. — Megan McCafferty
Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back. — Sharon Olds
If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to be joyous. Every relationship should color your soul to a certain degree, don't you think? Every friendship, every love affair - each one should build up the chambers of your heart the way a sea creature builds the chamber of his shell. — Sharon Shinn
Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again. — Martha Beck
No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream. — Robin S. Sharma
Aging happy and well, instead of sad and sick, is at least under some personal control. We have considerable control over our weight, our exercise, our education, and our abuse of cigarettes and alcohol. With hard work and/or therapy, our relationships with our spouses and our coping styles can be changed for the better. A successful old age may lie not so much in our stars and genes as in ourselves. — George Vaillant
I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time. — Anthony Weiner
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors. — James Laughlin
Most organizations don't fall apart as a result of one big blow. Most relationships don't end because of one grand argument. Most lives don't fall to pieces due to one sad event. No, I suggest to you that sustained failure happens as the consequence of small, daily acts of neglect that stack up over time to lead to a blow up - and break down. — Robin S. Sharma
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