Quotes About Unrequited

All love is unrequited. All of it.

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.

A friend to you is all I will ever be, but I'll always secretly wish the way you want her would be the way you want me.

Even though we both know that our loved one will never so much as look our way we can't erase that small something within us that continues to hope in vain.

It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.

This was a time in my life when I was so filled with longing for so many things that were so far out of reach that at least once a day I thought my heart would implode from the sheer force of unrequited desire. By desire I am not referring to apartments I wanted to occupy or furniture I wanted to buy or even people I was attracted to (well, I'm referring to those things a little) but, rather, a sensation I can only describe as the ache of not being there yet.

I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. I rang you over and over again and you would never come to the phone. What part of that gives the impression that I didn't care? ~Jonah Griggs

He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.

I think there are plenty of people out there, men and women both, who have pined over someone who is unattainable — only to have their heart broken time and again.

it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

I was in love with her. And it didn't matter that she wasn't in love with me. I loved her. It was my love story. I don't expect you to understand that but it's true. You don't have to be loved back. You can love anyway.

I am the kind of person who, if my feelings are unrequited, can completely detach from someone emotionally if I simply put my mind to it.

It's funny when you decide you don't like someone. I am the kind of person who, if my feelings are unrequited, can completely detach from someone emotionally if I simply put my mind to it. That's why I'm always saying I would be a great serial murderer.

It is a terrible, wretched thing to love someone whom you know cannot love you. There are things that are more dreadful. There are many human pains more grievous. And yet it remains both terrible and wretched. Like so many things, it is insoluble.

I'd seen Simmon pursue nearly every woman within three miles of the University with the doomed enthusiasm of a child trying to fly.

parecías tener un talento especial para perseguir a la persona que menos te convenía, para querer lo que no podías tener, para rendir tu corazón a chicas que no podían o no querían corresponderte.

There can be great depths of love that are not reciprocated.

The girl was unsurpassed in beauty; she cared for the king and served him, but he had no relations with her.