Top 100 Sad Quotes About Life
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51. “If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it’s the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.”

— Paulo Coelho

52. “Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.”

— Jim Carrey

53. “We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and – in spite of True Romance magazines – we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

54. “Nothing in life is promised except death.”

— Kanye West

55. “When hope is gone, time is punishment.”

— Mitch Albom

56. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

— C. S. Lewis

57. “Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”

— Haruki Murakami

58. “The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done.”

— Francis William Bourdillon

59. “Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

— Khalil Gibran

60. “There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.”

— Charles Bukowski

61. “It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.”

— William Styron

62. “I prefer to cry alone. Pride? No. I just want to avoid the judgement of people who don’t know the reason for my tears.”

— Demi Lovato

63. “I’ll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”

— Cheryl Strayed

64. “You’re always haunted by the idea you’re wasting your life.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

65. “Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

66. “Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”

— Katharine Hepburn

67. “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

68. “I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”

— Frida Kahlo

69. “Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself – if they could live in my memories – would anyone, anyone, love me?”

— John Green

70. “I’ve tried so hard and got so far but in the end, it doesn’t even matter.”

— Chester Bennington

71. “Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.”

— Eminem

72. “He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.”

— T. S. Eliot

73. “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”

— John Steinbeck

74. “It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

75. “Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”

— Franz Kafka

76. “But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

77. “Life is a useless passion.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

78. “The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live – moreover, the only one.”

— Emil Cioran

79. “This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.”

— Buddha

80. “When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

81. “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

— Oscar Wilde

82. “Nobody loves me. Sometimes I wish God could come down and hug me.”

— Ja Rule

83. “I don’t want to die. But I want to be dead.”

— Jean Ingelow

84. “Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

85. “I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.”

— Hermann Hesse

86. “I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

87. “Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”

— Nick Hornby

88. “Even those who never frown eventually break down.”

— Linkin Park

89. “Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”

— Victor Hugo

90. “Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

— Haruki Murakami

91. “Life for me has not been a crystal stair.”

— Langston Hughes

92. “Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”

— Mitch Albom

93. “I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”

— Jack Kerouac

94. “The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.”

— George R.R. Martin

95. “Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.”

— Keren Ann

96. “Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell. Everything passes.”

— Osamu Dazai

97. “The death of a beloved is an amputation.”

— C. S. Lewis

98. “Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.”

— Leo Tolstoy

99. “Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.”

— Robin Williams

100. “Why am I dying to live if I’m just living to die.”

— Tupac Shakur