Unrequited Quotes

There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms.

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

...[P]erhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return---that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

you’re gone andyour unfinished poemlies alone on my desk—empty of tears, I only hope it rains today

But I love him.""So love him.""But I miss him.""So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it.

She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.

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

She felt tears slip from beneath her lashes, no matter how she tried to blink them back. Her heart was ablaze. It seemed that her entire life had led to this man, this moment of unexpressed love.

I came hoping to see those eyes, but instead I return with my heart, leaving behind only flowers.

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

To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.

A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.

We're cool, " I say calmly, although I feel something else. I feel... sad. Like I've lost something I never quite had.

Never fall in love with someone that won't fight for you because when the real battles begin they won't pull your heart to safety, but they will their own.

I loved you even when you forgot me.And—for a little while—you loved me back.

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

Besides, unrequited love is one of those things that all teen-agers have to go through, right?

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.

In the garden, the Captain of the Guard stared up at the young woman's balcony, watching as she waltzed alone, lost in her dreams. But he knew her thoughts weren't of him.

Let her remain where she is. A constellation away.

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.

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.

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.

The pain that comes from unrequited love is more than outweighed by the revelation that my heart is not dead.

And she never knew that he laid awake the whole time, his lips at her temple, his hand against her hair.Whispering her name.Whispering other words as well.

Did you hear about Katie Parkinson? ... She's going out with Christopher... They've been kissing.""It was like a Semtex explosion in my brain. I did not know whether to cry or run away.

For a moment, Blake said nothing. After chewing on her venom for a moment, he shrugged. “I would rather you hate me for who I am than love me for who I’m not.

I just stood there, like a grain of sand amongst amillion others on a beach.

The truth is that there is almost nothing as tiresome as unwanted love.

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.

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

Love is the one thing in this world that you should never have to go through alone… For unreciprocated love is the most soul crushing experience you will ever go through.

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.

Limerence is an obsessive, unrequited love. It is actually a disorder. A disease if you will.

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.

I think I've found someone with who I want to spend my life with and that person...Isn't you.

I won't be a substitute for what you cannot have. Especially not if it is my sister's shadow you mean to place me in.

...what is the meaning of La Belle Dame Sans Merci? - have you never been enthralled? enchantment that is unrequited desolates the soul...

Gosh, even Roark noticed Dominique.

My love let me be your chalice your holy grail of dreams.

...you knew I was confused, tormented, but you enticed me - led me on...

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

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

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

The pain would not leave him. It came to him like the tide that hits the sea.

Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had abandoned all hope of ever enjoying?

I know you’ve forgotten me, but I’ll remember you as long as I live.

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

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