Spanish Sad Quotes

"Donde habite el olvido, en los vastos jardines sin aurora."

Where oblivion dwells, in the vast gardens without dawn.

— Luis Cernuda

"El amor no tiene cura, pero es la única medicina para todos los males."

Love has no cure, but it is the only medicine for all ills.

— Unknown

"El corazón es un gitano, no se fija en ningún lugar."

The heart is a gypsy, it doesn't settle in any one place.

— Popularized by Gipsy Kings / Traditional Proverb

"El dolor es la única virtud que puede ser medida."

Pain is the only virtue that can be measured.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

"El infierno está lleno de buenas intenciones."

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

— Proverb

"El recuerdo es el único paraíso del que no nos pueden expulsar."

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be expelled.

— Jean Paul

"El vivo vive del bobo y el bobo de su trabajo."

The clever one lives off the fool, and the fool off his work.

— Anonymous (Popular Saying)

"Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido."

So short is love, and so long is forgetting.

— Pablo Neruda

"La envidia va tan flaca y amarilla porque muerde y no come."

Envy goes so skinny and yellow because it bites but does not eat.

— Francisco de Quevedo

"La soledad no es estar solo, es estar vacío."

Loneliness is not being alone, it's being empty.

— Attribution Uncertain

"La vida es una herida absurda."

Life is an absurd wound.

— Federico García Lorca

"Las penas con pan son menos."

Sorrows are less with bread.

— Traditional Spanish Proverb

"Me gustas cuando callas porque estás como ausente."

I like you when you're quiet because you are as if absent.

— Pablo Neruda

"No hay mayor desprecio que no hacer aprecio."

There is no greater scorn than to show no appreciation.

— Traditional Spanish Proverb

"Para que nada nos separe, que nada nos una."

So that nothing separates us, let nothing unite us.

— Pablo Neruda

"Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche."

I can write the saddest lines tonight.

— Pablo Neruda

"Soy de un país que ha sufrido, es parte de mi identidad."

I am from a country that has suffered, it is part of my identity.

— Víctor Jara

"Traté de ahogar mis penas, pero ellas aprendieron a nadar."

I tried to drown my sorrows, but they learned how to swim.

— Frida Kahlo

"Vivir es caer sin cesar."

To live is to fall ceaselessly.

— Octavio Paz

"Volverán las oscuras golondrinas."

The dark swallows will return.

— Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer