Top 100 Sad Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”

— Franz Kafka

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

— Oscar Wilde

53. “Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— Keren Ann

55. “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

56. “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

57. “Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.”

— Leonard Cohen

58. “I’m strong on the outside, not all the way through. I’ve never been perfect, but neither have you.”

— Chester Bennington

59. “You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.”

— Samuel Beckett

60. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

— Anaïs Nin

61. “Don’t lie to me. Don’t deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

62. “The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”

— Thomas Merton

63. “Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.”

— Heinrich Heine

64. “The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.”

— Charles Bukowski

65. “For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.”

— Albert Camus

66. “No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.”

— Stephen King

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

— Linkin Park

68. “A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.”

— John Steinbeck

69. “That’s what life is about: People come and go.”

— Cecelia Ahern

70. “Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.”

— Henry David Thoreau

71. “Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

72. “I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”

— Lemony Snicket

73. “Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”

— Isabel Allende

74. “Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

— Mary Shelley

75. “Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.”

— Deepak Chopra

76. “O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!”

— William Shakespeare

77. “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

78. “Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.”

— Dylan Thomas

79. “What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”

— Sylvia Plath

80. “If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

81. “There are no happy endings.”

— George R.R. Martin

82. “I am nothing. I’ll never be anything. I couldn’t want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.”

— Fernando Pessoa

83. “The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

84. “If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.”

— Trent Reznor

85. “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.”

— Joni Mitchell

86. “My heart is so tired.”

— Markus Zusak

87. “How many deaths will it take ’till we know that too many people have died?”

— Bob Dylan

88. “There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”

— Neil Gaiman

89. “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”

— William Goldman

90. “I love my brother. I miss my brother.”

— Randy Quaid

91. “There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”

— Franz Kafka

92. “A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.”

— Franz Kafka

93. “The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness.”

— Osamu Dazai

94. “I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”

— Franz Kafka

95. “All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.”

— Steven Moffat

96. “The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

97. “Will you still love me when I’m no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I’ve got nothing but my aching soul?”

— Lana Del Rey

98. “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.”

— Chazz Palminteri

99. “The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”

— Nicholas Sparks

100. “Life’s hard, then you die.”

— Woody Allen