Unrequited Love Quotes

All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.

She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong man.

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.

Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love.

My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.

I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.

...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.

Unrequited love is like hitting your head against a wall that isn't there.

But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.

Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down.

The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path.

I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.

Heart lesson #4: the unrequited heart. You can't make anyone love you back.

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

And this, " cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully.

First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.But if it’s not like that, be brief in forgettingAnd after you’ve forgotten, don’t keep anything.

Oh yes, it's very tragic. Why does everyone always like love stories? What about absence-of-love stories? Aren't they much more common?

Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?

Some are convicted for breaking the heart…some are the victims of broken heart – Irony of unrequited love.

This is agony cried Mr Salteena clutching hold of a table my life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.

Which is when I decided I would never love anyone again because you just felt like an idiot when you put love out there and it didn't come back your way.

Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.

And, long after Clark had gone home, Solomon stayed up wondering if everyone falls in love with someone who can't love them back.

I wanted to say "don't leave me, " but I'm so tired of begging people to stay.

...the hardest word to swallow is almost.

I've dreamt of us falling in love and being together in a million different ways, yet I still wake up in the one way without you.

What an unrequited love it is, this thirst! But is it love, when it is unrequited?

...I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys...

I'm not unlucky at love, just incredibly lucky with celibacy.

Some people are like an open grave:You give it the thing you love mostAnd then get nothing in return.

She personified her name in everything she did. Even when we would row, her words were deftly chosen and spoken rather like an intricate dance. And I so loved to dance with her.

Souls soar high above reach, Hands extend but never touch, Words exchanged in dulcet tones, Tis a fated moment to understand one's truth, Time to let go.

There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.

Her love has been always unrequited, but until now it wasn't real love. Now it hurts, and that's how she knows it is real.

Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever.

I can't give you the moon, ” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

Eternity has a way of letting us all grow up.

One sided-love always goes with the urge of possessing.

Which is worse? Loving someone and not being able to be with them or not loving someone and having to be with them.