Quotes About Unrequited

I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love.

I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.

I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.

You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.

And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.

E' il Dio degli amori non corrisposti, quello che si diverte a combinare in infiniti incontri sbagliati tutte le possibili infelicità e le possibili disperazioni.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

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

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.

I'm bad at some things." She raised an eyebrow. "Name one thing." Making you fall in love with me the way I've always been in love with you. You only ever saw the jock while you let those artist assholes chase you. And hurt you.

It's love, Bertie, but love unrequited. Although she is the apple of my eye, to her I am no more than a pip. I need

I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one-half of a great love that wasn't meant to be.

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

Perhaps it was the knowledge that she was beyond him that had made his love of her such a lasting, painful thing.

I fell in love with you when I saw you that summer, he said. I adored you for years afterward. You were so lovely, so pure, so totally unattainable.

He always felt a pang of something—anger? bitterness? loneliness?—when he heard Christina laugh. She seemed able to do it with everyone except him.

I'd been in love dozens of times, but it was always the unrequited kind.

My warm affections finding no return... were forced to run waste on inanimate objects.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

Love songs in particular are so compelling because love is probably the strongest emotion you can have, and I think it's relatable to absolutely everyone, whether it's unrequited love or love.

Perhaps a great love is never returned.