Unrequited Quotes
Although love unreturned can drive you to despair, trust that somewhere out there, someone is waiting just for you.
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.
Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can't say, and you just walk away. And I forgot to tell you I love you.
Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
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.
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?
Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.
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.
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.
When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.
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.
...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.
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.
Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love.
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.
I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.
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.
I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush.
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.
If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.
No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.
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.
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.
Its not the love that hurts but the scented memories of anticipated dreams of a future together
I loved you even when you forgot me.And—for a little while—you loved me back.
The mysteries I desired to learn of heaven and earth and all that is between could only be taught by experiencing you.
She had the look in her eye when you kick and kick at the door and it doesn't open, when you write a boy letters and letters and he never loves you, not ‘til the day he dies. Not even then.
She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes.
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.
Besides, unrequited love is one of those things that all teen-agers have to go through, right?
The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.
