170 Sad Twitter Quotes About Life, Love, Pain, Friends and Relationships (Updated 2024) (2024)

If you’re feeling down, or just need a good cry, look no further than Twitter. This social media platform is full of sad quotes about life, love, pain and friendship. We’ve collected 170 of the best ones for you here. So grab a box of tissues, and prepare to be moved by some of the most heartbreaking thoughts ever expressed in 280 characters or less.

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Sad Twitter Quotes

“It’s okay. I’m just sad, that’s all.”

“I had sadness for breakfast.” – Andy Milonakis
“Sad songs are what move people.” – Lorrie Morgan
“Sadness is also a kind of defense.” – Ivo Andric

“Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.” – Bill Blass
“A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.” – John Steinbeck
“Tears are the summer showers to the soul.” – Alfred Austin

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” – Khalil Gibran
“The roof of disappointment comes from holding expectations!”
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.” – Emily Bronte

“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.” – Mark Twain
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” – Jean de La Fontaine
“Depression is the inability to construct a future.” – Rollo May

“It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.” – Willie Nelson
“Delicious tears! The heart’s own dew.” – Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.” – Helen Hunt Jackson

“When someone asks “how are you?” They really don’t want an answer.”
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” – Rumi
“He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.” – Voltaire
“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.” – Arthur Koestler

“One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.” – Jackie Kennedy
“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.” – Charles R. Swindoll
“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.” – Dorothy Thompson

“The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice.” – Gloria Estefan
“It hurts when you have someone in your heart but can’t have in your arms.”
“The worst thing is holding on to someone who doesn’t want to be held on to.”
“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.” – William S. Burroughs
“The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.” – Saadi
“The worst thing is losing someone over and over, when you’ve never had them.”

“You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.” – Loretta Lynn
“Nobody understands another’s sorrow, and nobody another’s joy.” – Franz Schubert
“Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.” – Ernest Renan
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“I know you don’t care about me anymore, but I’m still here… just like I promised.”
“We live in a very classist society, and it’s sad and depressing.” – Shenaz Treasury

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Sad Twitter Quotes About Love

“It takes one minute to make someone’s day and one word can destroy someone’s life.”
“You don’t realize how much you care about someone until they don’t care about you.”
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” – Jim Rohn
“It’s hard to take a role in someone’s life when you’re not even part of the script.”
“This is the problem with getting attached to someone when they leave you feel lost.”

“Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.” – Mattie Stepanek
“I can wipe away the tears from my eyes but I can’t wipe away the pain from my heart.”
“Sometimes in order to not fall apart, you have to let go of what keeps you together.”
“That feeling when you’re not necessarily sad, but you just feel really really empty.”
“Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.”
“Waiting for you is like waiting for a rain in a drought – useless and disappointing.”

“The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.” – Logan Pearsall Smith
“I have never liked someone as much as I like you then you go ahead and break my trust”
“I’m trying to be good enough but you don’t consider me trying unless I’m good enough.”
“You’ll always be in my life even if I’m not in yours, because you’ll be in my memory.”
“There are so many things in life that make you sad, you have to be happy.” – Paul Pogba

“The hardest thing to accept is loving someone and knowing they’ll never love you back.”
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” – Leo Buscaglia
“The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” – Carl Jung
“Crying is cleansing. There’s a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.” – Dionne Warwick

Sad Twitter Quotes About Pain

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Khalil Gibran
“Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.” – Steven Tyler

“The truth is I’m scared you won’t understand and you won’t love me back the same way I do.”
“First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great.” – Alyssa Milano
“Nothing hurts more than realizing he meant everything to you and you meant nothing to him..”
“When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.” – Jean Ingelow
“The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can’t have them..”
“We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.” – Pierre Corneille

“Dying is only one thing to be sad over… Living unhappily is something else.” – Morrie Schwartz
“The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.” – Alexander Smith
“You are really strong when you are broke in a thousand pieces but still hold on to what you want”
“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.” – H. G. Wells
“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.” – Sophocles
“If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay..”

“Its amazing how someone can break your heart, but you still love them with all the little pieces..”
“You don’t forget someone you used to love, you just accept the fact that you were not meant to be.”
“Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.” – Golda Meir
“It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.” – Bruce Springsteen
“Your love for me is like a dream; it is beautiful and fun to think about, but will never be a reality.”

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Sad Twitter Quotes About Life

“It’s both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.” – Tony Hanco*ck
“One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.” – Eugene O’Neill
“Everything’s complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.” – Nick Hornby
“I keep telling myself that I don’t miss you, and that I don’t love you, hoping someday I’ll believe it.”
“Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.” – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

“I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.” – Nana Mouskouri
“Sometimes crying is the only way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is.”
“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.” – William Cowper
“When you care about someone, you want them to stay. But sometimes showing you care means letting them go.”
“You can’t ever hurt an overthinker, they already see it coming, you’re literally just proving them right.”
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.” – John Greenleaf Whittier

“Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.” – Bill Toomey
“In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“If you don’t know about pain and trouble, you’re in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.” – Evel Knievel
“Sometimes ignoring is the best way to pretend that you are not affected from things that hurts you secretly.”
“We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.” – Pierre Corneille
“Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.” – Christian Nestell Bovee

“It’s sad how someone can go from being the reason you wake up smiling, to the reason you cry yourself to sleep.”
“The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.” – Eudora Welty

Sad Twitter Quotes About Friends

“I always knew I would look back on my tears and laugh; but I never knew I would look back at my laughter and cry.”
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” – Hannah Arendt
“Some people will use you for the longest time but when they don’t need u anymore they throw you away like trash …..”
“The hardest part is waking up in the morning and remembering what you had been trying so hard to forget last night.”

“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.” – Christopher Morley
“Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.” – Greta Garbo
“Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.” – Anne Bronte
“We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“I lost my sleep schedule for you, I lost so many friends for you, I failed good grades for you. just for you to hurt me.”
“It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.” – Jean de la Bruyere

“Don’t think the one you love the most won’t hurt you, in fact they might just hurt you worse than anybody else ever could.”
“I’ve lived, I’ve loved, I’ve lost, I’ve missed, I’ve hurt, I’ve trusted, I’ve made mistakes but most of all, I’ve learned.”
“Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?” – William Blake
“When I first met you I remembered everything about you… What you wore, the time of the day it was, and the things you said.”
“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Rejection isn’t what makes me back off, it is the pure sight of your happiness without me, as to mean I am no longer needed.”

“I know I’ve made a lot of stupid mistakes, but the worst was thinking the person who hurt me the most, wouldn’t hurt me again.”
“Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.” – Francois Fenelon
“If you think of someone, day or night, asleep or awake, bad or good, and right now as you read this, they belong in your heart.”
“I’ve always been pretty independent, no matter what situation: good, bad, ugly, happy, sad. I dig deep, and I get over it.” – Mel B
“I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.” – David Hasselhoff
“I thought I could not love anyone as much as I loved you. but now, I think I could not get hurt by anyone as much as I got from you.”

“I wish I could give you my pain just for one moment. not to hurt you, but so that you could finally understand how much you hurt me.”
“I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It’s sad.” – Grace Slick
“Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.” – Horace
“I’m not over you because I don’t like you anymore, I’m over you because I’ve realized that you’re never going to want me like I want you.”
“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.” – Joseph Campbell
“It’s hard to pretend that you love someone when you don’t, but it’s even harder to pretend that you don’t love someone when you really do.”

“I’ve cried, and you’d think I’d be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.” – Conor Oberst
“Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.” – Yoko Ono
“One day you’ll come to me and ask me what’s more important u or your life. I’ll say my life and you’ll walk away never know that you’re my life”
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.” – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“I was in a bar and I said to a friend, ‘You know, we’ve become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, ‘Isn’t it sad?'” – George Clooney

“It’s a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.” – W. H. Auden
“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.” – Taraji P. Henson
“There was a time when stars were made out of music videos but today singers rely on actors to make their singles hit. I find that sad.” – Neha Bhasin
“I wrote a techno song after I was deported. I was in America for a little bit, but then I was deported back to Germany. I was very sad.” – Flula Borg
“A tragedy need not have blood and death; it’s enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.” – Jean Racine

“My parents’ divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.” – Jennifer Aniston
“You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?” – Rumi
“The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.” – Edmond de Goncourt
“They say it’s better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.” – Conor Oberst
“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.” – William Wordsworth
“I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.” – Mattie Stepanek

“We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.” – Alanis Morissette
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“It’s a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.” – Daniel Day-Lewis
“Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.” – Red Skelton
“Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt… doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.” – Comte de Lautreamont
“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.” – Helen Keller

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Sad Twitter Quotes About Relationships

“I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons – my mother had breast cancer and I think it’s very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.” – Paloma Faith
“For a woman who’s a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I’m surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored.” – Blythe Danner
“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“if they broke your heart that is their loss, they will never find someone as good as you. don’t keep crawling back to them because they will never do that to you in 10 million years.”

“We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.” – Albert Pike
“Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.” – Henry David Thoreau
“It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.” – Thomas Huxley
“And it’s sad because it’s like a surprise to people – almost an anomaly – when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That’s the last thing people think about.” – Vanessa Carlton

“My father’s death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.” – Brooke Shields
“Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!” – Dita Von Teese
“Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?… I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel
“I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that’s real. Mistreatment of other people because ‘I’m better than you are’ is such a sad part of the world.” – Melissa Leo
“Isn’t it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?” – Richard Dawkins

“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.” – George Eliot
“Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It’s really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.” – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
“I was raised in an atmosphere of ‘everything’s fine.’ But as I got older, I was like, ‘Well no, everything’s not fine. There is stuff that’s sad.’ I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.” – Ellen DeGeneres
“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.” – Norman Cousins
“When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.” – E. B. White
“I don’t know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don’t deal well with disappointment.” – Peter Steele
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” – Washington Irving
“I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts… but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.” – Bai Ling
“When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.” – Ben Stein
“Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.” – Pete Townshend
“At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.” – Earl Blumenauer

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Wrapping Up

These sad Twitter quotes might make you feel better about your own life, or they might just make you feel worse. But either way, they’re a good reminder that we’re all going through something and that nobody’s life is perfect. So next time you’re feeling down, remember that you’re not alone. And if you need a good cry, these quotes will definitely do the trick.