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Quotes About Unrequited

So you could not love me? That is as I hoped. For while I like you immensely, I do not love you and it would be tragic indeed for you to suffer twice from unrequited love, wouldn't it, dear?
~ Margaret Mitchell
She heard the soft muffled sound of his footsteps dying away down the long hall, and the complete enormity of her actions came over her. She had lost him forever. Now he would hate her and every time he looked at her he would remember how she threw herself at him when he had given her no encouragement at all.
~ Margaret Mitchell
What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me? Was it not foolish? was it not wrong? Yet, if I found such deep delight in thinking of him, and if I kept those thoughts to myself, and troubled no one else with them, where was the harm of it?
~ Anne Bronte
And you have never given me your love.
~ Anne Rice
it is forbidden to love where we are not loved
~ Sharon Olds
Of course, she didn't care about me. She mostly made fun of me. But that just made me love her even more. She was out of my league, and even though I was only twelve, I knew that I'd be one of those guys who always fell in love with the unreachable, ungettable, and uninterested.
~ Sherman Alexie
He would remember their kiss forever. She wouldn't recall him at all.' (Wulf)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don't like me back, or who don't like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.
~ E. Lockhart
what is the meaning of La Belle Dame Sans Merci? - have you never been enthralled? enchantment that is unrequited desolates the soul...
~ John Geddes
Limerence is an obsessive, unrequited love. It is actually a disorder. A disease if you will.
~ Elizabeth Cohen
Nell'amore non corrisposto è come se due individui vivessero in una bolla d'aria densissima e uno dei due venisse soffocato da tanta pienezza.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
He looked up in despair at the starry sky, he struck his burning chest with his fist; he loved and he was not loved!
~ Gaston Leroux
There's a fascinating school of thought that some women are relationship addicts. You get really strung out on a guy who's not returning your enthusiasm and tell yourself you're going to fix him and make him better, and of course it's impossible.
~ Phoebe Snow
Thinking back about throwing myself at certain gentlemen that had no interest in me, that'll bring a blush to my face if I think about it too often.
~ Gillian Jacobs
Malo es el amor no correspondido; pero lo que verdaderamente puede hundirlo a uno es el amor no correspondible.
~ Sam Savage
It's like always a never. The sea breaking against the rocks. The one always wanting. It's the hardest thing loving someone who doesn't love you.
~ Sappho
Mis infortunios sentimentales se debían más a mí que a ella, por haberla querido de una manera que ella nunca hubiera podido quererme a mí, aunque, en algunas contadas ocasiones, lo intentara.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
There's a kind of holiness to love, requited or not, and those people who don't receive it with gratitude are arrogant beyond saving.
~ Marisa de los Santos
As regarded himself, he was still in love, — hopelessly in love, with Lady Laura Kennedy!
~ Anthony Trollope
Suddenly I can't bear being near him anymore. I can't bear seeing his generous, brave face, his woodland eyes, his everything... and knowing that they can't be mine.
~ Sophie Kinsella
There's only so long you can smile brightly at the man who has your heart but loves someone else.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Because you can want and want and want..But if he doesn't want you back...you might as well wish the sky were red.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Girls fitted easily into their own and your own picture of someone dying of unrequited love. If they slipped out of it before you were ready, that was all right too; their slipping out frequently was the necessary reminder that an affair had run its course. It also was the necessary reminder that the realist in a woman, the good appraiser, makes her want to take a loss and get out before she is—for the purposes of the analogy—ruined.
~ John O'Hara
Is there anything in the world more graceless, more dishonouring, than to desire a woman whom you will never have? Throughout
~ George Orwell