Top 100 Heart Sad Quotes

#1. Can I ask what you're reading?" ... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. "Have you read it?" She said. I nodded. I could feel the pulsating beat of my heart behind my eyes. "It's a sad story." "Sad stories make good books," She said. "They do.

Khaled Hosseini

#2. Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change.

Mark Twain

#3. Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they're going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what's the point in them being happy now if they're going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they a re going to be sad later.

Steven Moffat

#4. She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.

Gustave Flaubert

#5. Do you speak Gaelic Noah? she suddenly asked.
His heart clenched. It actually hurt, as though spikes of steel had been dug into it.
should I?
Maybe not ...

Lora Leigh

#6. When you're alone and you feel sad, try reading a book. Try touching someone's heart. Try to imagine what they were thinking, what they wanted to convey. If you do that, you might get something amazing.

Mizuki Nomura

#7. Cast up
the heart flops over
gasping 'Love'
a foolish fish which tries to draw
its breath from flesh of air
And no one there to hear its death
among the sad bushes
where the world rushes by
in a blather of asphalt and delay

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#8. A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#9. You realize you've forgiven people, your past and yourself when you don't speak bad about them anymore, even if you're encouraged to do so, even if you remember you were once brutally broken because of them ...
you just move on, let go, let them be and let yourself be ...

Sanhita Baruah

#10. The lines of her face, turned up to the sky, would have broken your heart.

Tana French

#11. It is so sad how hatred is a seed we planted in the hearts of kids. We are going to be working for years and years to try and fix this.

Eytan Fox

#12. Whenever my phone blinks fist thought come to mind is u and only u.

Pavankumar Nagaraj

#13. Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden ... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#14. Felix had left his heart buried in the ground years ago, but he felt it crack apart.

Lauren DeStefano

#15. The void inside me starts to fill, but my heart has holes, and whatever it holds will run out, leaving me empty once again.

Danielle Esplin

#16. You really love her don't you," she said.
With all my heart."
She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.
What's your heart telling you to do?"
I don't know."
Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it.

Nicholas Sparks

#17. Oh, if somewhere there were a being strong and handsome, a valiant heart, passionate and sensitive at once, a poet's spirit in an angel's form, a lyre with strings of steel, sounding sweet-sad epithalamiums to the heavens, then why should she not find that being?

Gustave Flaubert

#18. I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

James Thurber

#19. I let the happy times slip through my fingers and gripped on to the sad times as if they were my heart's desire

Charles Stross

#20. It's never fun to break someone's heart, that's so sad.

LIZ

#21. Every kid's afraid of that right? That someday you'll be left in a corner, like a toy, staring with button eyes and a broken heart.

Lili St. Crow

#22. I was so sad that day. My heart was trying to climb from my body.

Michelle Tea

#23. My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#24. tears are the feelings heart shares with eyes

By Me

#25. It's not just love, or desire, but something profoundly less complex, as unadorned and simple as the vehicle code. Officer laughs, cries. Tearful and giddy, she whales on her demonstrator with what she realizes is joy in her heart.

Daniel Orozco

#26. No one can hurt me now 'cause i have stopped permitting them.

Pavankumar Nagaraj

#27. There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally.

Deepak Chopra

#28. The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar
and so very sad: What is this you have done?

Tosca Lee

#29. I didn't know his middle name or his favorite color, but I knew how his thoughts felt caressing my mind. The bright tang of his adrenaline coursing under my skin. The force of his heart, strong and rhythmic and a bit sad, pumping within my own chest.

Vicki Pettersson

#30. And like a fool who will never see the truth
I keep thinking something's gonna change
There's a danger in loving somebody too much
And it's sad when you know it's your heart they can't touch
There's a reason why people don't stay who they are
Baby sometimes love's just ain't enough

Patty Smyth

#31. Here was the endless prairie, so rich in its blessings of fertility, but also full of great loneliness--a form of freedom which curiously affected the minds of strangers, especially those to whom the Lord had given a sad heart.

O.E. Rolvaag

#32. 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

#33. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#34. Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

Jean Giraudoux

#35. I'm sorry and I believe in you and I'll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I'll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life.

Jennifer Egan

#36. If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#37. When it came to Eva's life, her mom had the awareness of a fifty-cent guppy; there were sad-eyed janitors at school who seemed to have more insight into Eva's heart than her own parents did.

J. Ryan Stradal

#38. Oh, of course, it was a sad role, the lover no longer loving. But once the perfunctory sympathy was given him the heart went outfully to oneself, the real victim, the unloved.

Dawn Powell

#39. I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

George R R Martin

#40. The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother's heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. It may be true with music, too.

Gene Weingarten

#41. Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead.' But I couldn't help it. Sometimes I would rather look back if it meant that I could feel something in my heart, even something sad. Sadness was better than emptiness.

Xiaolu Guo

#42. When you are sad, your heart pumps the tragedy all through your body and fills your mind with the story of your suffering, and you tell that story to yourself over and over.

Susan Patron

#43. I'm a die-heart romantic with a tendency to cry during sad movies.

Anonymous

#44. Mrs. Potter said you were a kind and loving soul, underneath all the rest. I guess that means your heart's so sad that it's hard to get out from under the weight. When I was sad about my mother dying, Granny used to say grief is the heaviest thing to carry alone. So I know all about that -Mike

Pam Munoz Ryan

#45. When you say, "I have a sad heart," then you literally have a sad heart. If we looked inside your heart, we would find it affected by molecules that cause stress and damage, such as excessive amounts of adrenaline and cortisol.

Deepak Chopra

#46. Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much gravity on my heart.

Sarah Ockler

#47. The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness.

Pema Chodron

#48. A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#49. You are my true and honourable wife;
As dear to me as the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart.

William Shakespeare

#50. Many a brave smiling face hides a sad heart

Dorothy Scannell

#51. there are times when simply looking at him breaks her heart. Not in a sad way. It's the other kind of heartbreak. The kind that clenches the insides upon discovery of something particularly beautiful or altogether implausible.

Barbara Forte Abate

#52. He knew he would always be the sad one: caged in that little round of skull, imprisoned in that beating and most secret heart, his life must always walk down lonely passages. Lost. He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one,

Thomas Wolfe

#53. Love without desire, or conditions, or limits - a pure and radiant glow in the heart that could make me giddy and sad and glorious all at once.

Christopher Moore

#54. There I go When my heart all worn by grief Sinketh low. Where my baseless hopes do lie There to find my peace, go I. Sad and slow . .

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#55. When thou are not pleased, beloved, Then my heart is sad and darkened, As the shining river darkens When the clouds drop shadows on it! When thou smilest, my beloved, Then my troubled heart is brightened, As in sunshine gleam the ripples That the cold wind makes in rivers.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#56. Sad heart. Poor heart.
Never stood a chance heart.

Kristina Haynes

#57. Missing feels like a sad spot in my heart ... Missing means I love her.

Daniel Gottlieb

#58. Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.

Dorothy Parker

#59. Was Levi Myers real? Did he really exist? Or did my sad, black heart create him because it longed for a little bit of color?

Brittainy C. Cherry

#60. Everything fits, especially me with him, and him with me. He is the puzzle piece that slides into place in my heart, filling all the sad and empty spots inside me.

Lauren Blakely

#61. Our chiefs are killed ... The little children are freezing to death ... My people have no blankets, no food ... My heart is sick and sad ... I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph

#62. Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#63. My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU.

Sanhita Baruah

#64. Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying
valiantly, fruitlessly
to eradicate.

Claire Messud

#65. Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank Heaven! - and from its long, sad, wretched dream, to dawn.

Charles Dickens

#66. Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken ... that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.

Jack Kerouac

#67. Love has turned to be a sad tragedy of my life even we both are alive

Seema Gupta

#68. He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn't able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

Haruki Murakami

#69. Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#70. Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

Sara Teasdale

#71. Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.

William Shakespeare

#72. Dreaming of getting you
I loosed everything
Cheerfulness of smile
And all the dreams of life

Hasil Paudyal

#73. I asked myself only when he needed my help, "How will the broken heal the wounded?

Sanhita Baruah

#74. If there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it ...

Charlotte Bronte

#75. When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#76. Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes,
Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

Thomas Gray

#77. Tears are only for those who care to see you sad; a badly broken heart never cries.

M.F. Moonzajer

#78. He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

Ian McEwan

#79. Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.

Gustave Flaubert

#80. That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.

William S. Burroughs

#81. A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.

William Shakespeare

#82. My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.

Lea Thompson

#83. Mikey, she says, but not like she's about to say anything more, just like she's identifying me, making a place for me here that's mine to exist in. I want her so much, my heart feels heavy, like I'm grieving. Is this what they meant about that stomach feeling? They didn't say it felt this sad.

Patrick Ness

#84. She felt her in her heart all the time now, yearning for her lost love and lamenting for past mistakes. The Lady's grief was overwhelming sometimes, making Sofia sad for no reason at all, especially at night when the world around her grew quiet and there were no distractions.

Effrosyni Moschoudi

#85. Oh, you break my heart. Why does everything have to be so sad to you? Why do you have so many negative opinions about things you don't know about, like foreign countries and diseases and everything? Why can't you be more like Chief Wayne? He has zero opinions. He's just upbeat.

George Saunders

#86. Are you your daddy's boy? Her question was like a stab in the Heart, because, at the end of the day,yes, he was. He was just like his Dad, and one day blood would tell.

R.J. Scott

#87. The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#88. How can you believe someone to be so beautiful and amazing and just about the most magical person you've ever known, when it turns out she was in such pain that she had to drink poison to rob her cells of oxygen until her heart had no choice but to stop beating?

Gale Forman

#89. When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

Albert Camus

#90. My feelings were big, sad, comfortless, of a thinking animal, my heart acting like an orb filled too big for my chest, not from revulsion, which I have to say I didn't feel, but over-all general misery.

Saul Bellow

#91. It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#92. O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art, ...

William Shakespeare

#93. Despereaux turned. He looked up and into the Head Mouse's eyes. They were dark eyes, deep and sad and frightened. And as Despereaux looked into them, his heart thudded once, twice.

Kate DiCamillo

#94. God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#95. Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.

Emily Giffin

#96. If grief or anger arises, Let there be grief or anger. This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy Buddha, Sad Buddha. It is the universe offering all things to awaken and open our heart.

Jack Kornfield

#97. It is not, Dear, because I am alone, For I am lonelier when the rest are near, But that my place against your heart has grown Too dear to dream of when you are not here.

E. Nesbit

#98. Jesus changes our history from a random series of sad incidents and accidents into a constant opportunity for a change of heart.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#99. All that I know is that he is sad in his heart ... that is the place where his sadness is. Right there. And I do not think that is ever very easy to deal with sadness in that part of the body.

Alexander McCall Smith

#100. There's a danger in loving somebody too much, and it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.

Patty Smyth

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