Here are Top 50 Heartbreaking 2-Line Sad Shayari in English
1. Empty Promises 💔
“You swore you’d never leave,
Now your shadow won’t even grieve.”
— Rupi Kaur
2. Fading Love 🥀
“We were a flame burning bright,
Now just ashes in the night.”
— Lang Leav
3. Ghosted 👻
“You haunt my every waking thought,
Though to you I mean naught.”
— Atticus
4. Broken Trust 🎭
“Gave you keys to my soul,
You locked me out and stole the whole.”
— R.M. Drake
5. Unanswered 🤷♂️
“I screamed my love into the void,
The void didn’t even say ‘avoid’.”
— Christopher Poindexter
6. Left Behind 🌪️
“You took the sun when you left,
Now I’m frozen in your theft.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson
7. Endless Wait ⏳
“I still set a plate for you,
Though I know you’re through.”
— Michael Faudet
8. Soul Wound 🩹
“You didn’t just break my heart,
You tore my universe apart.”
— Nayyirah Waheed
9. Memory Weight 🏋️
“Your memories are stones in my pocket,
Dragging me down where you forgot it.”
— Beau Taplin
10. Hollow 🕳️
“You carved yourself out of me,
Now I’m just empty anatomy.”
— Pierre Jeanty
11. False Love 🤥
“Your love was just a clever play,
I believed until the final act.”
— Charlotte Brontë
12. Helpless 👐
“I begged the stars to bring you near,
They laughed and disappeared.”
— E.E. Cummings
13. Stubborn Heart 😔
“My heart still writes you letters,
Knowing there’s no address.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Oceans Apart 🌉
“An ocean between our beds,
Yet you’re farther in your head.”
— Pablo Neruda
15. Unfinished 🖤
“Our story ended mid-sentence,
Left dangling in past tense.”
— Warsan Shire
16. Betrayal 🎪
“You were my sanctuary,
Then became my cemetery.”
— C.S. Lewis
17. Wordless Pain 🤐
“Some hurts are too deep for tears,
They bleed internally for years.”
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
18. Dead Hope 🪔
“Hope was the last to die,
Now even ghosts pass by.”
— John Keats
19. Ignored 📢
“My love letters returned unread,
Sealed with the wax of your dread.”
— Lord Byron
20. Broken Faith 🏚️
“You were my religion,
Now I kneel to your omission.”
— Khalil Gibran
21. Unreciprocated 🍂
“I loved you like the moon loves the sea,
You drained me dry and left me empty.”
— Sara Teasdale
22. Living Death ⚰️
“You left me breathing but not alive,
A corpse that somehow still survives.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
23. Tearless 💧
“My eyes ran out of tears to cry,
Now the pain just pools inside.”
— Sylvia Plath
24. Unsent Letters 📜
“I wrote you a thousand goodbyes,
None could pass my lips or eyes.”
— Emily Dickinson
25. Forgetting 🧠
“They say time heals all wounds,
Yet your name still stops my lungs.”
— Robert Frost
26. Hopeless 🌫️
“I light candles in the dark,
Knowing none will find your spark.”
— W.B. Yeats
27. Defeat 🎭
“Love was the war I couldn’t win,
You armed yourself from deep within.”
— Ernest Hemingway
28. Timeless Wait 🕰️
“I’ll wait forever if I must,
Though forever’s turned to dust.”
— Oscar Wilde
29. Heart Shards 🩸
“Picked up every broken piece,
Still cut myself on your release.”
— Anne Sexton
30. Love’s Corpse 🚷
“We buried what we used to be,
Yet it claws back to haunt me.”
— H.P. Lovecraft
31. Nothingness 🌀
“You took the colors when you went,
Now my world’s a monochrome lament.”
— Virginia Woolf
32. Rainy Grief ☔
“My tears became the endless rain,
Flooding memories down the drain.”
— William Wordsworth
33. Bed of Nails 🛌
“Our bed now just a torture rack,
Where I relive each love we lacked.”
— Charles Bukowski
34. Phantom Limb 👻
“I still reach for you at night,
Grasping at vanished light.”
— Neil Gaiman
35. Meaningless 🎭
“All our ‘forevers’ came undone,
Leaving just a hollow sun.”
— T.S. Eliot
36. Chained Pain ⛓️
“This agony has no parole,
Life sentence for my broken soul.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
37. Beggar’s Love 🥣
“I scavenge crumbs you used to share,
Starving on your leftover air.”
— Charles Dickens
38. Walking Dead ⚰️
“My pulse still ticks from habit,
My heart stopped when you left it.”
— Mary Shelley
39. Suicidal Love 💉
“I overdose on memories,
The sweetest poison killing me.”
— Anne Rice
40. Final Chapter 🔚
“Our story had no epilogue,
Just sudden end and endless fog.”
— Jane Austen
41. Failed Escape 🏹
“Ran from your memory for miles,
Still found you in my reflection’s smiles.”
— Mark Twain
42. Delirium 🗣️
“I talk to walls that look like you,
They answer more than you ever do.”
— Edgar Degas
43. Treachery 🗡️
“You didn’t just cross my heart,
You burned the bridge and tore it apart.”
— William Blake
44. Numb 🕯️
“The pain grew so immense,
Now I feel nothing, just pretense.”
— Leo Tolstoy
45. Cremated Love 🔥
“What we had is smoke now,
Still I choke on sacred vows.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
46. Mirage 🌵
“Drank from your love’s oasis,
Only to find it was my tears’ basis.”
— Kahlil Gibran
47. Last Goodbye 🚪
“The door closed with finality,
Locking out our history.”
— Haruki Murakami
48. Haunted 👻
“Your ghost wears my skin now,
Pretending to live somehow.”
— Stephen King
49. Buried Alive ⚱️
“Six feet under memories,
Yet still breathing painfully.”
— Hanya Yanagihara
50. Epitaph ☠️
“Here lies my heart’s devotion,
Murdered by your ocean.”
— Unknown Poet