sad quotes : from a mix of sources … sentence starters
“Do you think I could be saved?”
“There’s no reasoning with grief.”
“I am so tired of being so scared.”
“If this is reality, I’m not interested.”
“I put all my trust in an empty dream.”
“But what is grief if not love persevering?”
“I was too young to know how to love her.“
“I’m too young for eyes this sad, this tired.”
“You’re all duct tape and safety pins inside.”
“If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?”
“I can survive on my own. I have for this long.”
“I don’t want to give up hope… it’s all I have left.”
“I didn’t make the choice to give this up. You did.”
“How long have you carried this, all on your own?”
“I loved her… and, sometimes, she loved me, too.”
“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.“
“Maybe some people are just made to be shattered.”
“There is no way to train your heart to be invulnerable.“
“You said you’d always be there for me, but you’re not.“
“I don’t trust anyone else. I can barely even trust myself.”
“Sometimes it’s better to be alone. Nobody can hurt you.“
“You don’t love me. You don’t. Love doesn’t hurt like this.”
“All that could be said has… and it hasn’t solved anything.”
“No one heard me screaming, then. How could they, now?”
“They’ve dulled your light. Even your smile is dimmer, now.”
“You were supposed to be my escape… not another prison.”
“How long am I supposed to wander before I can find home?”
“I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.“
“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.“
“I have to keep moving. Eventually, someday, I’ll be safe, again.”
“How can you move forward when you keep regretting the past?“
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.“
“I should have been there. I should have done something, anything.”
“No matter how gifted you are… You, alone, cannot change the world.“
“Nothing… there is nothing I can do that will make my heart less heavy.”
“Loneliness is peaceful, but there’ll be no one to share happiness with.“
“Please don’t go away… No one’s ever stuck with me for so long before.“
“You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.”
“I just want you to be happy. Even if that happiness no longer includes me.”
“People keep telling me that life goes on, but to me, that’s the saddest part.”
“I thought I could just apologize tomorrow. But that tomorrow… never came.“
“How has the weight of this not crushed you? How are you still able to smile?”
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
“The scariest and the most painful thing is to be hated by someone you truly love.“
“Happiness is a fleeting notion. It fills you with false hope. Grief keeps you grounded.”
“Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.“
“Nothing has ever hurt more than realizing, in your darkest moment, you’re truly alone.”
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.“
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
“I know what it’s like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in, but you can’t.”
“But, if you want to leave, you can. I’ll remember you, though. I remember everyone that leaves.”
“You can love someone so much… But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.“
“Why should I apologize for being a monster? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?“
“I have to believe that there are still good people in the world. I have to believe that kindness persists.”
“You have been, in every way, all that anyone could be… If anybody could have saved me, it would have been you.”
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad, and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”
“Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.”
“But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes… and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can’t forgive yourself for.“
“People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.”
“The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they don’t wish to see anyone else suffer the way they did.“
