Wanting to update your WhatsApp or social media to reflect something a little sad? We know the feeling! With that in mind, we’ve worked on creating this ultimate guide full of the best sad status in English, with over 300 sad status options!

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Essentially, similar to Instagram Stories, you can load content – photos, text, videos and GIFS – onto your WhatsApp as a ‘status update’ which is live for only 24 hours. Any of your contacts that also have your number saved in their phone will be able to see it under the Status Tab on the app.

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We’ve gone ahead and chosen what we think are the best 10 sad status in English:

There are many famous quotes – by authors, celebrities, politicians – that its worth using one for your sad status for WhatsApp!

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

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative you can get beyond your pain or negativity. Yoko Ono

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Jean de La Fontaine

Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Barbara Kingsolver

So, it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. E.A. Bucchianeri

Tears are words that need to be written. Paulo Coelho

Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear. Joshua Wisenbaker

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes. Nikolai Gogol

The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. Lemony Snicket

The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung

There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. Nicholas Sparks

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. Dante Alighieri

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. C. Joybell

We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim. R.M. Drake

When you’re happy you enjoy the music. When you’re sad, you understand the lyrics. Frank Ocean

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Jonathan Safran Foer

Feeling a bit lonely? Here is a list of the best alone whatsapp status for you to try:

I am fighting alone & being depressed is an everyday fight. I am tired of being sad now. Trust…. nothing feels right.

I feel like a balloon… looking bright & cheerful, but empty and lonely inside.

I like to be alone, but I hate being lonely.

I like to be alone. But I would rather be alone with you.

I need some time alone with myself.

I stay home alone, listen to music and think too much.

It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.

Life’s a prison when you’re in love alone…

Loneliness better than gathering.

Loneliness has taught me many everything in this world except one thing. How to forget the one who made me lonely.

Lonely is not being alone. It’s the feeling that no one cares.

One gets used to being alone, but it’s enough to break it for a day & you have to get used to it again from the beginning.

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

Sometimes It’s better to be alone… No one can hurt you.

Standing alone is better than standing with people who don’t value you.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they do is stare blankly.

The person who keeps tries to keep everyone happy often ends up feeling the loneliest.

You are always there for me and so you give me the courage to stand alone.

You can’t be strong all the time. Sometimes you just need to be alone and let your tears out.

Gone through a break up? Heart broken? It’s pretty tough and definitely makes you sad. We’ve collected some good status updates like Sad I Miss You Quotes but also break up status updates that show you can move on…

A breakup is like a broken mirror. It’s better to leave it than hurt yourself trying to pick up the pieces.

A part of me will be waiting for you for a lifetime.

A relationship is only made for two, but some just forget how to count.

As soon as forever is through, I’ll be over you.

Being in love with someone who doesn’t want you is the worst feeling ever.

Breaking up doesn’t mean that no more love is left; it’s more of trying to save the love that’s left.

Breaking up is just like having the worst nightmare after having the best dream.

Continue when I am telling you I moved on.

Different faces, different experiences, different monsters in this world.

Do you ever feel that the weight of this world is sitting on their shoulders?

Every break-up is an excellent opportunity to do right the next time.

He taught me how to love, but not how to stop.

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He was the prestigious gift I have ever had …. but I was the game that he played.

How could an angel break my heart? Why didn’t he catch my falling star? I wish I didn’t wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.

I am not happy without you; I am just trying.

I can feel you forgetting me.

I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every part of my body is broken too.

I hate the moment when my anger turns into tears.

I was playing back a thousand memories baby, thinking about everything we’ve been through.

I will always care for you, even if we’re not together and even if we’re far, far away from each other.

I will never stop caring, but now you decide to push me away, so I will not stay.

I’ve been gone through so much that now I’ll show you my most active side in my weakest.

If you give up on me, I’m going to give up on me too.

It’s easy to cry when you realise that everyone you love will reject you or die.

Loving you was my favourite mistake.

Moving on sounds easy. But I died thousand times in pain just to appreciate this phrase.

Nothing hurts more than realising he meant everything to you & you meant nothing to him.

Once upon a time I was falling in love, but now I’m only falling apart.

People leave because it’s easier to walk away than to fight for what they really want.

So, I guess it ends here. We will go out, separate ways & hope that we’ll see each other somewhere in future.

The hardest to do is waking up without you.

The most painful goodbyes are those which were never said and never explained.

The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you.

The toughest part of letting go is realising that the other person already did.

This is the problem with getting attached to someone. When they leave, you just feel lost.

When I close my eyes, I see you. When I open my eyes, I miss you.

When people can walk away from you, let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody who left.

Sometimes things are written so beautifully, almost like poetry. We have selected a few of these for potential status updates:

All I know is that I’m lost without you.

Do not judge. You do not know what storm I have walked through.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Every thought is a battle, every breath is a war and I don’t think I’m winning anymore.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: “It might have been”.

Hate is like acid. It damages the vessel in which it is stored and destroys the vessel in which it is poured.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

I didn’t lose you, you lost me. You’ll search for me inside of everyone you’re with and I won’t be found.

I lost myself somewhere in the darkness.

I was born the day you kissed me, and I died inside the night you left me. But I lived, oh how I lived while you loved me.

It’s sad when you realise you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you are.

Tears are words too painful for a broken heart to speak.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

The root of disappointment comes from holding expectation.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

You touched my heart with a thousand pleasures and broke it in to million pieces.

Love should be something positive and fulfilling. However, sometimes love is filled with sorrow. With that in mind, here are some good sad status love options in English for you to use, all about love:

And sometimes you just have forget about that person you once loved & move on.

At least, tell a lie that you love me, i will live the rest of my life with that.

Eight letters, three words, one regret, I miss you. I stay home alone, listen to music & think too much.

I am not worthy of being in love…

I don’t understand love at all. I guess its beauty is only at the beginning.

I have a habit of falling too hard and falling too fast and getting my hopes up for something i know won’t last.

I know they say that first love is the sweetest but that first cut is the deepest.

I tried to forget you, but the harder I tried, the more I thought about you

I’m lost without love.

If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go.

It was love at first sight. Until reality struck like lightning and burnt up everything leaving me with nothing but scars.

It’s so hard to pretend not to love a person when you really do.

Love comes at first sight; injuries too.

Love is the person you think about during the sad songs…

Love sometimes comes like a dream and leaves likes a nightmare.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Sometimes it’s hard to love someone because you’re so afraid of losing them.

The hardest thing I’ll ever do is walk away still loving you.

The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.

There is only one happiness in life, to Love and be loved.

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True love isn’t found, it’s built.

When you truly love someone, you given everything you can and never expect a return.

You hurt me but I still love you.

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.

The heart wants what it wants, even when that makes you sad. We’ve found the ultimate heart touching sad status in English options for you:

Dear heart, please stop getting involved in everything. Your job is just to pump blood, so stick to it.

Don’t give special place to any one in your heart. It’s easy to give that place but it hurts more when they don’t know the value of that place.

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.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But, hearts are earned…

I wish my brain had a map to tell me where my heart should go.

It hurts when you have someone in your heart but can’t have in your arms.

It’s hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone if your heart still does.

Listen to your heart before you tell him goodbye.

Love the hearts that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.

My heart can’t love you anymore, because you have broken it.

My tears are like anchors that sink my heart to the depths of the deepest ocean…

No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.

Time doesn’t really heal the heart. It just makes the heart forget all the pain.

You’re the first person who broke my heart. For the rest of my life, you will always be the one who hurt me the most. Don’t forget that.

Being sad is almost physically painful sometimes; almost like your mental state turns into a physical one. We’ve collected some cracking WhatsApp status quotes and updates about pain you could use for your sad WhatsApp status English:

Everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain, but you can’t make a rainbow without a little rain.

I am tired of fighting. For once, I want to be fought for.

I hope you’ll realise how much you’re hurting me some day.

I know my silence and strength will heal my pain.

It hurts to let go, but sometimes it hurts more to hold on.

My silence is just another word for pain.

Pain is the only thing that makes me feel alive. I will never be good enough for you. I got that.

People change for two reason – they have learned a lot or they have been hurt too many times.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much and forgetting that you are special too.

The pain is not on the day of missing our dear ones. The pain is really when you love without them & with their presence in your mind.

The worst kind of pain is when you’re smiling just to stop the tears from falling.

When you are in love and you get hurt, it’s like a cut… it will heal, but there will always be a scar.

When you get hurt in love, there are very few things that actually help get over the pain.

Worst kind of pain is when you’re smiling just to stop the tears from falling.

Yes, I’ve changed. Pain does that to people.

Feel like crying? We know the feeling! Try on one of these crying status updates for Whatsapp:

Cry as I may these tears won’t wash you away.

Cry as much as you want to, but just make sure when you’re finished, you never cry for the same reason again.

Crying is the only way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how things made your heart break.

I hate it when crying is the only way to feel better.

I love crying in the rain. because when I do, no one can hear the pain.

It’s never the tears that measure the pain, sometimes its take smile we fake.

It’s not always the tears that measure the pain. Sometimes it’s the smile we fake.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

Sick of crying, tired of trying, yes I’m smiling but inside I’m dying.

Sometimes, crying is the only way your eyes speak when you mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is.

Tears are words the heart can’t express.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

The moment when you burst out crying in you room & you realize that no one know how unhappy you are.

What do you do when the only one who can make you stop crying is the one who is making you cry?

Even when you’re at your lowest, a simple smile can turn it all around. So pair your sad status image with a great smile quote or update:

Behind my smile is everything you’ll never understand.

Even when I’m hurting so bad inside, I’ll still smile & say I’m fine.

I’m a simple person who hides a thousand feelings behind the happiest smile.

It doesn’t matter who hurt you or broke you down. What matters is who made you smile again.

Smiling has always been easier than explaining why you’re sad.

Sometimes all you can do is smile. Move on with your day, hold back the tears and pretend you’re okay.

The people experiencing the most pain tend to be the ones who are always trying to make others smile.

Use your smile to change the world. Don’t let the world change your smile.

Yeah, she’s smiling but don’t let that fool you. Look into her eyes. She’s breaking inside.

Because you’re using pictures and videos, it’s worth having very short texts for your sad WhatsApp status. Like one of the ones we’ve curated below!

Alive or just breathing?

Did I change or did you just stop loving me…

Disappointed but not surprised.

I am only good at hiding my feelings.

I disappoint myself.

I don’t care for the people, who don’t care for me.

I felt so much that I started to feel nothing.

I felt so special until I saw you talk to everyone like that.

I get lost inside my mind.

I haven’t felt right for a really long time.

I just want to feel like I belong.

I need a break from my own thoughts.

I never stopped loving you, I just stopped showing it.

I see the beauty in everything but me.

I wanted to text you but I remembered we don’t talk anymore.

I wish I could ignore you like you ignore me.

I’m not okay. I’m just good at pretending I am.

I’m that person everyone replaces after a while.

It hurts and you don’t know it. Life is often cruel.

Maybe I was born to be sad.

Never put your happiness in someone else’s hands…

No matter how far you are, you are always in my thoughts.

Sometimes all you need is one person who cares.

Sometimes I just want to get away from it all.

The worst kind of sad is not being able to explain why.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

You killed what was left of the good in me.

You know my name not my story…

You’re a victim of your own mind.

The above options didn’t do enough for you? Why not try out one of these attitude status or even just quirky, funny and sassy status attitude updates?

A feeling of sadness seemingly without a cause…

Apologising doesn’t always mean you’re wrong & the other person is right. It means you value your relationship more than your ego.

Be careful who you fall in love with, cause someone somewhere not approve…

Before you make more promises, learn the meaning of forever.

But they all didn’t see the little bit of sadness in me…

Even if we can’t be together in the end, i am still glad you were a part of my life.

Every birth is paid by death & every happiness is paid by unhappiness.

Every time I start trusting someone, they show me why I shouldn’t.

Everybody knows that something’s wrong, but nobody knows what’s going on.

Everyone wants to be happy. No one wants to be sad and feel pain. But you can’t make a rainbow without a little rain.

Everything’s complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

Find someone who knows that you’re not perfect but treats you as if you are.

Have you ever noticed that the more special you treat someone, the more that someone takes you for granted? As if you won’t ever change.

Have you ever wondered what hurts you most…Saying something that you wished had not or not saying anything and wish you had?

I did everything right for someone that does everything wrong.

I did the searching and remembering. He/she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

I don’t think you know what you are doing to me.

I hate it when you talk to someone every single day and then it stops. All of a sudden neither of you say a word to each other.

I hate the fact that you ignore me for so long then you start talking to me like nothing happened.

I keep myself busy with things I do but every time I pause, I still think of you.

I miss the time when I actually meant something to you.

I really need to stop being so emotional about everything.

I remember all those crazy things you said, you left them running through my head. You are always there, you are everywhere. But right now, I wish you were here.

I say I don’t care anymore, but truth is I care too much.

I stopped talking about how I felt because I knew no one cared anyway.

I think I’m afraid to be happy because whenever I get too happy, something bad always happens.

I was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it…

I wonder if you know what you are doing to me…

I would rather lose you a thousand times than to never have met you one time.

I’m here waiting for you…. but you never come.

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

I’m sorry. I tried being perfect. But it’s just not me. I have been sad for years. Don’t tell me it gets better.

I’ve been sad for years. Don’t tell me it gets better.

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay.

If it’s not a happy ending, then it’s not the ending at all.

If you can learn from the worst times of your life, you’ll be ready to go into the best times of your life.

Isn’t it sad that you are hurt so much that finally you can say “I’m used to it”.

It hurts the most when the person who made you feel so special makes you feel so unwanted today.

It sucks how some people use you when they need you and then they put you aside like you didn’t even matter to them from the beginning…

It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.

It’s not that I wanna have it, it’s just that I wanna deserve it.

It’s sad how people become what they had promised they never will.

Letting go doesn’t mean you’ve stopped caring. It means you stopped trying to force someone too.

Life is like a roller coaster. It has it’s up’s and down’s, but it’s up to weather to enjoy the ride or not.

Love Isn’t a thing that you can play with. You will know the value of love when you find true love and someone else plays with you.

My feelings? Oh, don’t worry about those, no one else does.

Never expect things to be happen, because it better to feel surprised than to feel disappointed.

Never make someone a priority, when all you are to them is an option.

Never trust those people who don’t understand your feelings.

No one really cares until something dramatic happens.

Oh, I’m sorry. I forgot. I only exist when you need something.

One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.

One will never appreciate love when it’s still around until it gets away.

Pain is the only thing that’s telling me I’m still alive.

People walk away easily but they leave their memories with us forever.

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

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!

Sometimes I don’t tell people what’s wrong because most of the time they’re just being curious. Not because they care.

Sometimes it takes losing something to realise what you’ve had.

Sometimes it’s easier to pretend that you don’t care than to admit it’s killing you.

Sometimes the girl who’s always been there for everyone else. Need someone to be there for her.

Sometimes you got to accept the fact that certain things will never go back to how they used to be.

Sometimes you need to take a breath, stop pointing the finger, and take a glance in the mirror.

Temporary happiness isn’t worth long-term pain.

The New Year is not the time to be sad and will bring happiness in your life.

The only time I realised I fell in love with you was the only moment I found out that you had already belonged to someone else.

The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all.

The sun doesn’t always shine. So, it’s okay to fall apart sometimes.

The worst feeling is pretending as if you don’t care at all. When in reality that’s all you can think of.

The worst person to be around is someone who complains about everything and appreciates nothing.

There is nothing more depressing than having it all and still feeling sad.

There’s nothing more depressing than having it all & still feeling sad.

They ignore you until they need you.

Wanted by many, taken by none, talking to some, just waiting for one.

We always ignore the ones who adore us and adore the ones who ignore us.

We always thought we’d look back on our tears and laugh, but we never thought we’d look back on our laughter and cry.

We are not close anymore, but I’ll be here if you need me.

When people treat you like they don’t care, believe them. They don’t.

When you’re around someone so much, for so long, they become a part of you. And when they change or go away, you don’t know who you are without them.

Why does life keeps teaching me lessons that I’ve no desire to learn.

Words but deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into out soul.

Yesterday I was sad today i am happy yesterday i had a problem today i still have the same problem.

You can’t control everything that happens to you, but you can control how you react to the things that are out of your control.

You just can’t please everybody.

You may not be pushing me away but you’re not fighting to keep me either.

You want me to act like we’ve never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we’ve never met, and I’ve tried and tried, but I haven’t yet… You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

You will never be happy if you continue to hold on to the things that make you sad.

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How do I create a status for WhatsApp?

Click into the Status Bar on your app, and choose ‘Tap to add Status Update’. There you can upload your photo or video (choose the camera icon) and add your text over this image.

You can also upload up to 30 sad status images at a time by pressing the “+” button.

Who can see my WhatsApp status?

Your default settings should mean that only your Saved Contacts have access. However, you can edit this in your Privacy Settings to either My Contacts, My Contacts Except and Only Share With.

How do I delete my WhatsApp status?

It automatically deletes after 24 hours but you can manually delete it before this time but clicking the ‘three dots’ on the Status screen, choosing the one you want to delete and then pressing the ‘delete’ button.

How do I view other people’s WhatsApp Status?

Just go to the Status tab on the app and anyone who does have a WhatsApp Status, it will show there.

How do I reply to a WhatsApp Status?

Easy! Just swipe up and you can reply.

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