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Quotes About Unrequited

The only thing sadder than unrequited love is being in a relationship where there is unrequited love.
~ Shannon L. Alder
...what is the meaning of La Belle Dame Sans Merci? - have you never been enthralled? enchantment that is unrequited desolates the soul...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
I don't know why you care. He doesn't even know you're there
~ 'N Sync
I just like being as romantic as possible. I thrive off unrequited love. I've been in love in one way or another since I was 14. I go full-on in and get obsessive.
~ Tobias Jesso, Jr.
He was both everything I could ever want…And nothing I could ever have…
~ Ranata Suzuki
Though I never really had you….… to me you will always be the one that got away.
~ Ranata Suzuki
The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly is always the love that is not returned.
~ Ann Patchett
I write letters to you that you'll never see.
~ Jennifer Elisabeth
You see, " she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.
~ L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest
The pain of one-sided love, of knowing that I had loved her more than she had loved me
~ Sierra Simone, Priest
Unfortunately, loving someone doesn't obligate them to love you back
~ J. Matthew Nespoli
What an unrequited love it is, this thirst! But is it love, when it is unrequited?
~ Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
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.
~ Ellen Litman, Mannequin Girl
One sided-love always goes with the urge of possessing.
~ Yu-Rang Han, Love in the Mask
How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.
~ Samuel Richardson
Sometimes the most difficult relationships to get over are the ones that never were.
~ Brenda Priddy
I made such a fool of myself," she lamented. "Love does not make you a fool." "He didn't love me back." "That does not make you a fool, either.
~ Mitch Albom
It does take time. From the day I laid eyes on her, I wished Miss Louise Grady could just once look at me and see me. For years I kept that twinkling chance like a jewel in a box. That's what unrequited means.
~ Monica Wood
It isn't healthy to care for someone who can never love you back.
~ Nancy Farmer
Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?' 'That's the very thing I say to myself,' said Gabriel.
~ Thomas Hardy
the impetuosity of passion unrequited is bearable, even if it stings and anathematizes—there is a triumph in the humiliation, and a tenderness in the strife. This was what she had been expecting, and what she had not got. To be lectured because the lecturer saw her in the cold morning light of open-shuttered disillusion was exasperating.
~ Thomas Hardy
His dog waited for his meals in a way so like that in which Oak waited for the girl's presence, that the farmer was quite struck with the resemblance, felt it lowering, and would not look at the dog. However, he continued to watch through the hedge for her regular coming, and thus his sentiments towards her were deepened without any corresponding effect being produced upon herself.
~ Thomas Hardy
Not the first time Doc had run into girl-of-his-dreams unavailability.
~ Thomas Pynchon