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From quotes by famous Hispanic authors or traditional proverbs, Spanish sayings cover all areas of life.

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Sad Spanish Quotes With English Translation

Here’s a bunch of the best sad Spanish quotes with English translation.

This list includes a range of quotes including sad Spanish quotes about love, life and more.

  1. La tristeza es una de las vibraciones que prueban que estamos vivos – Sadness is one of the vibrations that proves that we are alive.
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  1. Las paredes que construimos a nuestro alrededor para mantener fuera la tristeza, tambiĂ©n impiden que entre la alegrĂ­a – The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep joy from coming in.
  1. Primero, acepta la tristeza. Date cuenta de que sin perder, ganar no es tan bueno – First, accept the sadness. Realize that without losing, winning is not so good.
  1. Las lágrimas son palabras que el corazón no puede expresar – Tears are words that the heart cannot express.
  1. Cuando eres feliz, disfrutas la mĂșsica. Pero, cuando estĂĄs triste, entiendes la letra – When you are happy, you enjoy music. But, when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.
  1. Lo mejor y lo peor, la luz y la oscuridad, lo correcto y lo incorrecto, la felicidad y la tristeza: todos se unen para formar el milagro que es la vida, y ninguno puede existir sin el otro – The best and worst, light and dark, right and wrong, happiness and sadness – they all come together to form the miracle that is life, and neither can exist without the other.
  1. En algĂșn momento, debes darte cuenta de que algunas personas pueden permanecer en tu corazĂłn pero no en tu vida – At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.
  1. El tiempo no cura las heridas, solo las hace envejecer lo suficiente como para acostumbrarse al dolor – Time doesn’t heal wounds, it just makes them old enough so you get used to the pain.
  1. La tristeza se aleja sobre las alas del tiempo – Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
  1. Las lágrimas nacen del corazón, no del cerebro – Tears are born from the heart, not from the brain.
  1. Un espejo muestra tu imagen exterior, pero nunca tu dolor en el interior – A mirror shows your image on the outside, but never your pain on the inside.
  1. Mientras yo aquĂ­ sufriendo llorando deprimido, tĂș siendo feliz con otra que no darĂ­a todo lo que yo doy por ti – While I’m here suffering crying depressed, you are happy with someone else who wouldn’t give everything I give you.
  1. La tristeza y la oscuridad pueden ser muy bellas y sanadoras – Sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.
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  1. El verdadero dolor es el que se sufre sin testigos – The real pain is the one suffered without witnesses.
  1. Creo que una parte de mí siempre estará esperando a tí – I think a part of me will always be waiting for you.
  1. Llorar es limpiar. Hay una razón para las lágrimas, la felicidad o la tristeza – Crying is cleansing. There is a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
  1. Los que están más cerca de ti son los que más te duelen – Those who are closest to you are the ones that hurt you the most.
  1. Todo el mundo tiene un momento para pararse con la cabeza bien alta, todos tienen tiempo de derrumbarse y llorar – Everyone has a moment to stand with their heads held high, everyone has time to break down and cry.
  1. Es triste cuando te das cuenta de que no eres tan importante para alguien como creías que eras – It’s sad when you realize you’re not as important to someone as you thought you were.
  1. La vida es placentera. La muerte es pacífica. Es la transición que es problemática – Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It is the transition that is problematic.
  1. No puedes evitar que las aves de la tristeza pasen por encima de tu cabeza, pero puedes evitar que hagan un nido en tu cabello – You can’t stop the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can stop them from nesting in your hair.
  1. Por lo que tiene de fuego, suele apagarse el amor – Because it has fire, love usually goes out.
  1. La peor forma de extrañar a alguien es estar sentado a su lado y saber que nunca lo podrĂĄs tener – The worst way to miss someone is to sit next to them and know that you can never have them.
  1. No llores porque se acabó, sonríe porque sucedió – Do not cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
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  1. No hay nada más deprimente que tenerlo todo y aun así sentirse triste – There is nothing more depressing than having it all and still feeling sad.
  1. ÂżPor quĂ©, si el amor es lo contrario a la guerra, es una guerra en sĂ­? – Why, if love is the opposite of war, is it a war in itself?
  1. El sol puede levantarse y ponerse. Si tu sol se ha puesto, no te preocupes. Soy tu luna. Puedo darte una luz en la oscuridad – The sun can rise and set. If your sun has set, don’t worry. I am your moon. I can give you a light in the dark.
  1. Ganamos fortaleza gracias al dolor y la tristeza. Cada vez que morimos, aprendemos a vivir de nuevo – We gain strength through pain and sadness. Every time we die, we learn to live again.
  1. Las lágrimas son las duchas estivales para el alma – Tears are summer showers for the soul.
  1. No hagas de alguien tu todo. Porque cuando se hayan ido, no tienes nada – Don’t make someone your everything. Because when they’re gone, you have nothing.
  1. No hay mayor pena que recordar en la miseria el momento en que fuimos felices – There is no greater sorrow than remembering in misery the moment in which we were happy.
  1. El corazón fue hecho para ser roto – The heart was made to be broken.
  1. La tristeza es como un tesoro precioso, que se muestra solo a los amigos – Sadness is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends.
  1. Sonríe, incluso si es una sonrisa triste, porque más triste que una sonrisa triste es la tristeza de no saber cómo sonreír – Smile, even if it’s a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
  1. Si ves a un amigo sin una sonrisa, dale uno de las tuyas – If you see a friend without a smile, give him one of yours.
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  1. Ignoramos a los que nos adoran y adoramos a los que nos ignoran – We ignore those who adore us and we adore those who ignore us.
  1. El dolor es más fuerte entre los más fuertes – Pain is strongest among the strongest.
  1. La ira es solo una extensión cobarde de tristeza. Es mucho más fácil enojarse con alguien que decirles que estás herido – Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s much easier to get mad at someone than to tell them you’re hurt.
  1. El amor es invisible y entra y sale por donde quiere sin que nadie le pida cuenta de sus hechos – Love is invisible and enters and leaves where it wants without anyone asking it to account for its actions.
  1. Amo la tristeza. Te hace sentir más que nada – I love sadness. It makes you feel more than anything.
  1. Mi dolor se convirtiĂł en tristeza y mi tristeza en ira. Mi enojo se convirtiĂł en odio y olvidĂ© cĂłmo sonreĂ­r – My pain turned to sadness and my sadness to anger. My anger turned to hate and I forgot how to smile.
  1. La palabra «felicidad» perderĂ­a su significado si no estuviera equilibrada por la tristeza – The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
  1. QuĂ©date sin pensarlo con esa persona que se muere si no te tiene, que con aquella persona que presume porque sabe que te tiene – Without a second thought, stay with the person who will die if they do not have you, rather than with the person who boasts because they know they have you.
  1. Nunca tomes una decisiĂłn cuando estĂ©s enfadado, triste, celoso o enamorado – Never make a decision when you are angry, sad, jealous or in love.
  1. Llega un momento en que te sientes solo sin importar cuĂĄnta compañía tengas – There comes a time when you feel lonely no matter how much company you have.
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  1. A veces me gusta estar bajo la lluvia, porque nadie puede decir que estoy llorando – Sometimes I like to be in the rain, because no one can tell that I’m crying.
  1. No hay desesperación tan absoluta como la que viene con los primeros momentos de nuestra primera gran tristeza, cuando todavía no hemos sabido lo que es haber sufrido y sanado, habernos desesperado y haber recuperado la esperanza – There is no despair as complete as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sadness, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and healed, to have despaired and to have regained hope.
  1. La tristeza no proviene de malas circunstancias. Viene de malos pensamientos – Sadness does not come from bad circ*mstances. It comes from bad thoughts.
  1. Por lo general, la gente piensa que soy una persona fuerte y feliz
 pero detrás de mis sonrisas simplemente no saben cuánto estoy sufriendo – Usually people think I’m a strong and happy person
but behind my smiles they just don’t know how much I’m suffering.
  1. Cuando todo ha sido dicho o hecho, el dolor es el precio que pagamos por el amor – When all has been said or done, pain is the price we pay for love.
  1. Cada vez que hago algo bien, nadie parece recordar. Pero cuando hago algo mal, nadie puede olvidarlo – Every time I do something right, no one seems to remember. But when I do something wrong, nobody can forget it.
  1. El dolor es inevitable, pero el sufrimiento es opcional – Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.
  1. La tristeza no es inherente a las cosas, no nos llega del mundo ni de su contemplación. Es un producto de nuestro propio pensamiento – Sadness is not inherent in things, it does not come to us from the world or its contemplation. It is a product of our own thinking.
  1. El hecho de que te deje ir no significa que yo quiera que te vayas – Just because I let you go doesn’t mean I want you to go.
  1. Nadie merece tus lágrimas, pero quien se lo merece no te hará llorar – No one deserves your tears, but whoever deserves it will not make you cry.
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  1. La raĂ­z de todas las pasiones es el amor. De Ă©l nace la tristeza, el gozo, la alegrĂ­a y la desesperaciĂłn – The root of all passion is love. From it, sadness, joy, happiness and despair are born.
  1. Al igual que las manecillas de un reloj no llegan a ninguna parte, ¡los pensamientos ansiosos nos hacen dar vueltas y vueltas sin llevarnos a ninguna parte! – Just like the hands on a clock go nowhere, anxious thoughts make us go round and round getting us nowhere!
  1. Nada puede curar el alma, sino los sentidos, así como nada puede curar los sentidos, sino el alma – Nothing can heal the soul but the senses, just as nothing can heal the senses but the soul.
  1. La belleza y la tristeza siempre van de la mano – Beauty and sadness always go hand in hand.
  1. La ira, las lágrimas y la tristeza son solo para aquellos que se dieron por vencidos – Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who gave up.
  1. La tristeza no es más que una pared entre dos jardines – Sadness is nothing more than a wall between two gardens.
  1. Tengo miedo de ser olvidado. Porque parece que todos a los que me acerco terminan olvidándome – I am afraid of being forgotten. Because it seems like everyone I get close to ends up forgetting me.
  1. No hay peor tristeza que recordar la felicidad en un día de dolor – There is no worse sadness than remembering happiness on a day of pain.
  1. TardĂ© una hora en conocerte y solo un dĂ­a en enamorarme. Pero me llevarĂĄ toda una vida lograr olvidarte – It took me an hour to get to know you and just a day to fall in love. But it will take me a whole life to be able to forget you.
  1. RĂ­e cuando estĂ©s triste, llorar es demasiado fĂĄcil – Laugh when you’re sad, crying is too easy.
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  1. DetrĂĄs de cada cosa hermosa, hay algĂșn tipo de dolor – Behind every beautiful thing, there is some kind of pain.
  1. El Ă©xito no es un buen maestro, fracaso te hace humilde – Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
  1. La tristeza es siempre el legado del pasado; los arrepentimientos son dolores de la memoria – Sadness is always the legacy of the past; regrets are pains of memory.
  1. El dolor de la separación no es nada comparado con la alegría de reunirse de nuevo – The pain of separation is nothing compared to the joy of meeting again.
  1. Incluso en tiempos de gran tristeza, siempre hay momentos en los que nos reímos – Even in times of great sadness, there are always times when we laugh.
  1. Vivir en el pasado solo te ciega hacia el futuro – Living in the past only blinds you to the future.
  1. Existe tanta tristeza en el mundo que todos estamos obligados a contribuir con tanta alegría como podamos – There is so much sadness in the world that we are all obligated to contribute as much joy as we can.
  1. Cualquier momento que no se gasta en el amor, se pierde – Any moment that is not spent in love is lost.
  1. A veces sonrío para ocultar la tristeza – Sometimes I smile to hide my sadness.
  1. Los dolores pueden explicarse en una vida verdaderamente vivida, la pena y la pĂ©rdida se acumulan como posesiones – Pains can be explained in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
  1. Cada hombre tiene sus penas secretas que el mundo no conoce y muchas veces llamamos a un hombre frío cuando solo está triste – Every man has his secret sorrows that the world does not know and many times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
  1. Aquellos que temen a la oscuridad no tienen idea de lo que la luz puede hacer – Those who are afraid of the dark have no idea what light can do.
  1. Si eres paciente en un momento de ira, escaparás a cien días de tristeza – If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sadness.
  1. El Ășnico interesado en escuchar tu triste historia eres tĂș – The only one interested in hearing your sad story is you.
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  1. Un alma triste puede matar más rápidamente que una bacteria – A sad soul can finish you off faster than a bacterium.
  1. Creo que todos se sienten solos en su tristeza, se requiere un cierto valor para escuchar las historias tristes de otras personas – I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, it takes a certain courage to listen to other people’s sad stories.
  1. La vida es como un videojuego. Solo que no hay un botón de reinicio – Life is like a video game. Only there is no reset button.
  1. Tengo tristeza dentro de mí. Tengo enojo dentro de mí. Tengo el corazón roto dentro de mí – I have sadness inside of me. I have anger inside of me. I have a broken heart inside of me.
  1. Si el mundo es un velo de lágrimas, sonríe hasta que los arcoíris lo atraviesen – If the world is a veil of tears, smile until the rainbows go through it.
  1. Ignórame. No me importa. Estoy acostumbrado de todos modos. Soy invisible – Ignore me I don’t mind. I’m used to it anyway. I am invisible.
  1. Cuando nos aferramos al dolor terminamos castigándonos a nosotros mismos – When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves.
  1. Hay dos tipos de personas en el mundo: los que prefieren estar tristes junto otros, y los que prefieren estar tristes solos – There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad with others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.
  1. Tal vez parte de amar, es aprender a dejar ir – Perhaps part of loving is learning to let go.
  1. No hay suficiente oscuridad en todo el mundo para apagar la luz, ni siquiera una pequeña vela – There is not enough darkness in the whole world to put out the light, not even a small candle.
  1. No os espante el dolor, o tendrá fin o acabará con vosotros – Do not be frightened by pain, either it will end or it will end with you.
  1. Ama hasta que te duela. Si te duele es buena señal – Love until it hurts. If it hurts, it’s a good sign.

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