180+ Best Sad Captions for Instagram

Are you looking for the best sad captions for Instagram? If so, you’ve come to the right place! We understand how difficult it can be to find the right words to express your sadness, so we’ve compiled a list of the Best Sad Captions for Instagram that will make you feel better. From short and sweet to long and meaningful, these captions will provide you with the perfect way to express your emotions. Read on to find out which sad captions best suit your mood!

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Best Sad Captions for Instagram

• Loneliness turned his heart into a monster.
• It hurts to leave a light on for nobody. – Graham Foust
• Waiting for someone else to make you happy is the best way to be sad.
• I fear my demons even in the dark night.
• God, I’m always so bloody tired.
• You never need to worry about your players when your goal keeper is GOD.
• You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.
• It’s sad when you realize you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you were
• Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Kahlil Gibran
• The hardest part is waking up in the morning. Remembering what you were trying to forget last night.
• Does anyone know when sadness will come to you or maybe at this moment you are feeling sadness?
• I smile all the time so that nobody knows how broken I’m inside.
• We are separated by distances, not by hearts.
• I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. – Mother Teresa
• Life is that boss of yours who gets you worked so hard but pays too little
• You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.
• And in the end, it’s not the people you miss. It’s the memories.
• Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. – Margaret Mitchell
• Everyone is going to hurt you. You just need to find that one person who is worth suffering for.
• If you give up on me, I’m going to give up on me too..
• I may smile and I may laugh. But deep down my heart is a pain you’ll never guess.
• Nowadays, forever ends when you find someone better.
• Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.
• Every heart has a pain. Only the way of expressing it is different. Fools hide it in eyes, while the brilliant hide it in their smile.
• A crumbled piece of paper cannot be fixed to become a fine one and so does a broken relationship.
• I Miss The The Time When I Actually Meant Something To You.
• Even though you were standing beside me, you were never there for me.
• When people can walk away from you, let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody who left.
• Most painful scar in some: The scar that causes the most painful scar is the scar that is not visible.
• What do I have to do to make you see she can’t love you like me.
• And in the end, I said you would love me. We’re in the end and there’s only one of us here. – Dominic Riccitello
• It was strange that amidst jealousy and fights our love lost somewhere.
• Sometimes treating some people like stair steps is a way to move on.
• With my hearts having slivers all around, they might hurt if you’d come closer.
• The heart was made to be broken.
• Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever. – Mattie Stepanek
• I wish FOREVER meant same to you that it means to me.
• Temporary happiness isn’t worth long-term pain.
• Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget. ― Alysha Speer
• I Stay strong assuming god doesn’t exist.
• I’m not afraid to fall in LOVE, I am afraid to fall for the wrong person again.
• Drowned in darkness, confined in pain
• Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.
• In the end, it’s not the people whom you miss. It’s about the memories.
• Expect less. Because you are not getting more anyway.
• I really miss the person who makes me smile.
• One of the most difficult tasks in life is removing someone from your heart.
• Does the entire spark that had been driving us crazy faded away?
• Hearts are breakable, even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.
• The only thing standing between me and total happiness is reality
• Why do I attract broken souls?
• Sometimes it’s better to be alone, so nobody can hurt you.
• Pain Is The Only Thing That Makes Me Feel Alive. I Will Never Be Good Enough For You. I Got That.
• The pain I feel is the only thing that reminds me I’m still alive.
• If my Absence doesn’t affect you then my presence has no meaning.
• This is the problem with getting attached to someone when they leave, you just feel lost.
• Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence.

Short Sad Captions for Instagram

• He proved that promises are made to be broken.
• A broken heart is the worst. It’s like having broken ribs. Nobody can see it, but it hurts every time you breathe.
• I know my silence and my tears will heal my pain one day.
• Everything was just like a fairy tale until you pushed me out of your world.
• I can’t stop loving you even after eternity.
• Only if I could get a mask to hide the pallor of the pain you gifted.
• Different faces, different experiences, different monsters in this world.
• Out of emotions, filled with emptiness.
• Don’t leave me alone because I never wanna leave you.
• People Cry Not Because They’Re Weak. Its Because They’ve Been Strong For Too Long.
• If my absence does not affect you, then my presence means nothing.
• What do you do when the only one who can make you stop crying is the one who is making you cry?
• I can unfriend you, unfollow you, but how can I Unlove you?
• You’ll never realize the value of what you have until what you have is no longer yours.
• Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. – Leonardo da Vinci
• He who greatly trusts is greatly disappointed…
• World’s may say that it’s over but somewhere in the heart, a feeling called love was still there.
• I never stopped loving you, just stopped showing it.
• I never knew that you could give my place to someone else so soon.
• I Stay strong assuming god doesn’t exist.
• Having the love of your life break up with you and say we can still be friends is like your dog dying and your mom saying you can still keep him.
• So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. – E.A. Bucchianeri
• Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard. – David Levithan, Love is the Higher Law
• I feel so miserable that I can’t be around normal people without making them miserable, too…
• One thing you can’t hide — is when you’re crippled inside. – John Lennon
• If I could go back in time, I would not have even been born.
• Just because I let you don’t mean I wanted to.
• I’ll never be a man that I want to be.
• Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.
• The worst feeling is pretending you don’t care about something, when it’s all you seem to think about.
• The only thing between me and total happiness is reality.
• Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative you can get beyond your pain or negativity. – Yoko Ono
• Everyone has a story but my story left me.
• Nowadays, forever ends when you find someone better.
• To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control. ― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo
• I dreamt of a forever but I guess he had a different view.
• The worst part is time leaves forever but the pain it causes stays forever.
• Dont be sad because its over. Smile because it happened
• My silence is just another word for pain
• Sometimes you have to know when to stop hoping.
• Everyone has a story but my story left me.
• Every smile has a mysLove became a memory I fear to remember.
• I tried not to miss you, but I couldn’t help it.
• It’s hard to understand that being us in the past now.
• The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever. – Carroll Bryant
• I Wish I Could Ignore You Like You Ignore Me.
• Did I change or did u just stop loving me?
• The greatest pain that comes from love, is loving someone who is not here…
• He did not break my heart but he shattered all the dreams I have for myself.
• Only if I could get a mask to hide the pallor of the pain you gifted.

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Best Sad Quotes and Captions for Instagram

• I wish I could escape to a place. somewhere where the feelings and thoughts won’t be able to haunt me.
• No one listened so I gave up. I just sat there in silence…
• He believed in love but the fear of heartbreak stopped him from confronting his feelings.
• Nothings worse, is to see them two together, knowing I will never have him again.
• I’ve never been to one and I’m really nervous and scared.
• Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. – Christopher Morley
• I just want a day where it feels like I’m not falling apart anymore.
• It hurts when you’ve being ignored by the person whose attention is the only thing you want in the world.
• Sometimes, you keep on waiting for that perfect day when everything is actually going to be ‘OKAY.
• People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long
• I wish only if we could last a little longer.
• If I die today, host my funeral with smiles.
• Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. – Jose N. Harris
• Sometimes all you wanna do is stay quiet just to find out who cares about you enough to ask you why…
• When you gave up on me, I gave up on me too.
• Just because I let you go, doesn’t mean I wanted to.
• Hugs and kisses are not enough if you don’t have the feeling of love and respect.
• I really miss the person who makes me smile.
• Today is over forever when you meet someone better.
• A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. – Queen Victoria
• The worst missing is missing your old self.
• There were days when she burnt her own heart for the sake of her loved ones and then a day arrived when her heart was nothing but just a pile of ashes
• The person who cried like hell when my eyes dropped tears has changed a lot.
• Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. – Stephen Chbosky
• I hate missing someone & not being able to do anything about it.
• Nowadays, forever is a short span of time, which ends when they find someone better.
• He was never mine, but losing him broke my heart.
• Love isn’t easy that’s why only those who are capable to tackle it, get it.
• His heart became too fragile and deprived of happiness. I think that heart was thirsty and the thirst was of love
• It hurts when your favorite person finds a new favorite person.
• Always hoping that one day I can be happy again.
• Silence is the most powerful scream.
• A Breakup Is Like A Broken Mirror. Its Better To Leave It Than Hurt Yourself Trying To Pick Up The Pieces.
• My heart broke the day I saw you looked at her the way I look at you.
• And in the end, it’s not the people you miss. It’s the memories.
• People are lonely, they build walls instead of bridges.
• Sooner or later everyone will cause you pain…You just have to figure out which ones are worth it.
• Nobody said it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
• Winter ended with hopes and then with the autumn, even my hope shed like leaves.
• After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. – Emily Dickinson
• Who hurt you? “My own expectation”
• My life is a collection of sad moments and comparatively less sad moments.
• You made me cry, you told me lies, but I can’t stand to say goodbye.
• What brings us to tears, will lead us to grace. Our pain is never wasted. – Bob Goff
• The heart was made to be broken. – Oscar Wilde

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Short Sad Quotes and Captions for Instagram

• Monsters don’t sleep under your bed, they scream in your head.
• Some of the most painful scars: the ones that hurt the most are the scars that can’t be seen
• Hugs and kisses are not enough if you don’t have the feeling of love and respect.
• Just because I let you don’t mean I wanted to.
• Scared to fall in love.
• Taken. Taken for granted.
• I’m busy saving everybody else when I can’t even save myself.
• Winter ended with hopes and then with the autumn, even my hope shed like leaves.
• Every smile has a mystery behind.
• Ignore me. I don’t care. I’m used to it anyways. I’m invisible.
• It’s funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word. We are screaming inside, but we can’t be heard. – Sarah McLachlan
• Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you’d clicked ‘Send’. – Faraaz Kazi
• Stop waiting for someone’s text.
• Why can’t I be happy for them?
• Smile and no one will see how broken you are inside.
• For we are born in other’s pain, and perish in our own.– Francis Thompson
• A teardrop is insignificant in a pool of water, but it can touch the soul as it runs down someone’s face.
• Stop looking for happiness in the same place you just lost it.
• World’s may say that it’s over but somewhere in the heart, a feeling called love was still there.
• Fear of falling in love.
• I gave you my heart, but I didn’t expect to get it back in pieces.
• Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.
• I guess broken pieces of glass hurt one badly and so does broken pieces of the human heart.
• Find Someone Who Knows That You’Re Not Perfect But Treats You As If You Are.
• It still hurts that you’re doing completely okay, without me.
• If you left me without any reason, don’t back with an excuse.