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Quotes About Unrequited

I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love.
~ Emily Levine
Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.
~ John Steinbeck
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
~ Dorothy Parker
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.
~ Anthony Powell
You don't like me the same way I like you. I'll get over it. I'm just disappointed you're not the cat I thought you were.
~ Erin Hunter
For whatever reason, I'm a good representation of the guy who doesn't get the girl.
~ Scott Foley
Dikeledi could make no secret of the fact that, in relation to men, she often suffered from high blood pressure, except that the trouble with the bloodstream had eventually boiled down to one, unattainable man.
~ Bessie Head
Wes wants to be with Macy. And Macy, whether she'll admit it or not, wants to be with Wes. And yet they're not together, which is not only unjust, but when you think about it, tragical!
~ Sarah Dessen
Some things in life were truly difficult. Finding the source of the Nile, for example. Or exploring the South Pole. But falling out of love with a man who never looked at her twice, why should that prove an insurmountable challenge?
~ Sherry Thomas
Sometimes people fall in love with those who do not return the same strength of feelings. It is as it is," he said with a quiet intensity. "What Igive, I give freely. You owe me nothing, not love, not friendship, not even obligation
~ Sherry Thomas
Lexington, met the man who would inspire four long years of unrequited love on her part, she was thinking about fossils. She didn't have any
~ Sherry Thomas
We simply love, but love is hardly reciprocated.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
I don't wanna need you because I can't have you.
~ Clint Eastwood
Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist.
~ J.R. Ward
You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
~ John Green
It's an incredible feeling falling in love someone who doesn't know you exist.
~ Dane Cook
The most precious love is often the kind that isn't returned, and that is given freely.
~ Emily Susan Rapp
I will always remember you, even though you had no idea I was even in the room. My words wouldn't come, I could only dream. A crush or a love?
~ Walter Bradford Cannon
We love even when our love is not requited.
~ Mortimer Adler
One of the hardest things in life to realize is that the person you love could never love you like you love them.
~ Carlos Salinas
He is, after all, the author, eternal possessor, initiator, and giver of love. He cannot be destroyed or made less by unrequited love, but to disassociate Him from the pain and grief associated with love is to carve a convenient idol out of wood or stone bearing no resemblance to the God of the Bible. Within those pages, we find a God who cannot be changed by man but can be affected by man. His immutability does not deplete or delete His affections.
~ Beth Moore
Her chest ached like a dull wound when she realized that her silence did not cause him a moment's reflection or curiosity. When she looked out the corner of her eye at him, she could not tell what she meant to him... Another wish that never would come true, she saw then, even if she lived forever, was that he, that someone, would look at her not as an artistic study, but with love.
~ Susan Vreeland
There was no room in his life for Marta, and none in her life for him; but it was a pity, all the same.
~ Josephine Tey