70 Sad Family Quotes Relatable To Broken Relationships

“Parents kill more dreams than anybody.” – Spike Lee

“Sometimes you have to accept the fact that certain things will never go back to how they use to be.”

“I know every family has its problems. But I admire those that stick together.”

“If I cut you off, chances are, you handed me the scissors.”

“Sometimes I’d rather hang out with my friends than my family because I feel more loved and understood…”

“Family is supposed to be our safe heaven, but very often it is the place where we find the deepest heartaches.”

“The hardest thing is not talking to someone you used to talk to everyday.”

“It’s very sad when members of the same family do not talk with each other. The children suffer for the adult ego. Cousins miss the wonderful opportunity to be together, and all due to a bruised adult ego. Stop getting offended. Reunite with your family members. One day, your imaginary conflict will all come to an ...

... end…with or without you. Don’t wait until it’s too late.”

“My family doesn’t do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.” – Hope Solo

“They never want to discuss what triggered you. Just how you reacted.”

“In a toxic family system the black sheep is often just the person who sees through everyone else’s bullshit.”

“Dear mom and dad, I wish you knew I was trying.”

“I hate it when people say, “they’re still your family.” Just because someone is your family doesn’t mean you have to keep them in your life in they’re toxic. Blood means nothing sometimes. Don’t let people guilt you into being in contact with someone who isn’t good for your mental health.”

“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Eva Burrows

“Absolutely no one can screw you over quite as well as members of your own family.”

“Do you ever just want to pack up and leave, out of the blue, without saying goodbye to anyone and start a new life?”

“As your kids grow they may forget what you said, but won’t forget how you made them feel.” – Kevin Heath

“A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried.”

“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.” – George Eliot

“People always talk about family being the most important thing in life but it’s usually family that hurts you the most deeply and painfully.”

“Family isn’t defined only by the last names or by blood; it’s defined by commitment and by love. It means showing up when they it most. It means having each other’s backs. It means choosing to love each other even on those days when you struggle to like each other. It means never giving up on each other.”

“When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family – was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there’s a lot I loved in television.” – Robert ...

... Pinsky

“I wonder why I feel I am treated like an enemy in a place where I am supposed to be welcome.”

“Sometimes when the people you love hurt you the most. It’s better to stay quiet because, if your love wasn’t enough….do you think your words will matter?”

“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.” – Margaret Mead

“Being family is determined more by behavior than blood.”

“Sadness is when everything you do reminds you of your family, but they are far away.”

“Family problems kills your happiness.”

“Sadness is having a dysfunctional family.”

“Isn’t it sad when even your own family doesn’t really know who you are.”

“Don’t waste your energy worrying about family that doesn’t worry about you. It’s their fault if they make the choice to miss out on the beauty of your children and the love your family could share. Focus on those who show you they care through both their words and actions, those are the people worth your ...

... energy.”

“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other. ”

“Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn’t get to have one family for my entire life.” – Isabel Grillies

“I’ve learned a lot this year…I learned that things don’t always turn out the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I’ve learned that there are things that go wrong that don’t always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I’ve learned that some broken things stay ...

... broken, and I’ve learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.”

“In our family portrait we look pretty happy. We look pretty normal, let’s go back to that. In our family portrait we look pretty happy. Let’s play pretend, act like it goes naturally.”

“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy

“I hate that my family can always make me cry, but if I say one harmful thing, I feel like a monster.”

“I miss my family with all my heart.”

“No one can break my heart like my father did.”

“Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don’t care, but because they don’t.”

“Just because someone is “family” doesn’t mean you have to tolerate lies, chaos, drama, manipulation and disrespect.”

“It’s so sad that even people closely related by blood can betray each other.”

“Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn’t a place you can be happy anymore. It’s hard, but it’s true.”

“The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.” – Charles Kuralt

“I watched as my family tree crumbled apart, leaving me as its only branch.”

“A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself.”

“In a family, the sadness of one is the sadness of all.”

“I hate my parents for ruining my life. I get jealous when I see my friend’s parents being so nice.”

“Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as family.”

“I wish that I could move away from my broken family where love ceases to exist so I don’t turn out like one of them.”

“I don’t think female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.” – Toni Morrison

“There is no such thing as a broken family. Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart.”

“You eventually learn to trust no one. Being alone sucks but at least you don’t have to worry about being let down or hurt again….”

“When you inherit a broken family, you can’t throw it away and get a new one. What you can do is find people and situations that provide for you what your family cannot.” – Iyanla Yanzat

“Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.” – Leigh Anne Tuohy

“Family is not about blood. It’s about who is willing to hold your hand when you need it the most.”

“When you’re in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that’s the way they’re supposed to act. And girls think that’s an accepted way men will treat them.” – Jim Costa

“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.”

“Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.” – Jerry B. Jenkins

“I hate the term broken family to describe divorces. When my parents divorced they didn’t “break” the family, they fixed it. Their marriage was what was broken.”

“My family wonders why I never want to be home or why I’m always in my room, maybe it’s because everytime I’m around you guys all you do is yell at me.”

“I think my family might actually be happy if I wasn’t here. Or at least hate each other a little less. I think I’m the reason my family is broken.”

“Family is a bond that can never be broken, there may be some cracks in it but will not break. Always remember who you are and where you came from, don’t let life or the people around you change you. Family is family no matter what happens.”

“It hurts the most when your own family betrays you…”