Extremely Sad Love Quotes That are Sure to Make You Cry

All love quotes that end up making you cry, actually help you come out of that emotional depressing state of mind. Coming across sad love quotes sometimes makes you feel as if the deep quotes were written for you. Heart rending quotes have the pain, the anguish to make your eyes swell with tears. Though they bring tears to your eyes, love quotes comfort your grieving heart, and help you to release the pent up emotions.

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."
- Hermann Hesse

Most of us, if not all, go through the trauma of losing someone we love, and that, perhaps, explains why there is no dearth of sad love quotes in this world. When you come across these quotes, it obviously becomes difficult to hold back your feelings, which often come out in the form of anger or helplessness, and culminate into tears. The following is a compilation of some famous love quotes, which are bound to make you cry your heart out.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. - Samuel Butler

"It takes a minute to like someone, an hour to love someone, but to forget someone takes a lifetime." - Anonymous

"When you are in love and you get hurt, it is like a cut... it will heal, but there will always be a scar." - Anonymous

Feet of couple sitting on the pier, beach

"It's amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces." - Ella Harper

The hardest part of dreaming about someone you love is having to wake up. - Anonymous

"You can close your eyes to things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to things you don't want to feel." - Johnny Depp

"I hate to see the one I love happy with somebody, but I surely hate it more to see the one I love unhappy with me...." - Anonymous

"A teardrop is insignificant in a pool of water, but it can touch the soul as it runs down someone's face." - Anonymous

Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind that makes it so difficult. - Anonymous

"Its hard to pretend you love someone when you don't, but its harder to pretend that you don't love someone when you really do." - Anonymous

"I wish I had the guts to walk away and forget about what we had, but I can't because I know you won't come after me & that's what hurts the most." - Anonymous

"A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried." - Anonymous

The saddest thing in the world is loving someone who used to love you. - Anonymous

"Since I can't be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again." - Susan Polis Schutz

"When It's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you." - Anonymous

"Sometimes you don't realize how much you care for someone until they stop caring for you." - Anonymous

"Someone can walk into your life and it is not until after they walk out that you realize that they were even there." - Anonymous

These quotes must have rekindled all those memories which you had been desperately trying to leave behind. But the fact is that, the tears which roll down on reading such love quotes and poems actually help you vent the pain that you have been trying to suppress all this while; thus making you strong from within.

What better way to end this write-up, but a famous quote by Richard Bach, a celebrated American writer; which speaks volumes about the divine feeling called 'love' - If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they are yours, if they don't they never were.