Quotes and Sayings About Unrequited Love
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Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.
-- Adolfo Bioy CasaresSource : Adolfo Bioy Casares (1990). “Asleep in the Sun”, Plume Books
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The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.
-- Allison PearsonSource : Allison Pearson (2003). “I Don't Know how She Does it: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
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My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather like unrequited love, like a symptom of the hopelessness of trying to grasp what is boundless, or unite what cannot be joined; a reminder of how finite, how curtailed, our experience on earth must be
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
-- Axl Rose -
I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.
-- Barbara PymSource : Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.73, Penguin
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Unrequited love made right is the ultimate, isn’t it?
-- Bella AndreSource : Bella Andre (2014). “Let Me Be the One: The Sullivans: (Contemporary Romance)”, p.57, Oak Press, LLC
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Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.
-- Bronislaw MalinowskiSource : "Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays".
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The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.
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Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.
-- Cassandra Clare -
There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.
-- Daniel Radcliffe -
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It’s a song about first relationships and letting go. It’s very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earth’s gravitational pull and where it’s going to take people and how they’re going to grow. I’ve heard it said that you can’t really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. It’s a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you can’t have forever.
-- Eddie Vedder -
I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.
-- Elizabeth ChandlerSource : Elizabeth Chandler (2010). “Don't Tell”, p.193, Simon and Schuster
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Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness.
-- Elizabeth McCracken -
I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love - plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing - turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness. Neither could James. He understood. In such situations, you do one of two things - you either walk away and deny yourself, or you do sneaky things to get what you need. You attend weddings, you go for walks. You say, yes. Yes, you're my best friend, too.
-- Elizabeth McCracken -
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For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself that she really wasn't the right country for you- just won't leave you in peace.
-- Eric Weiner -
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
-- Federico Garcia Lorca -
This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup
-- Frank Ocean -
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
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Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
-- Gustave FlaubertSource : Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.52, Harvard University Press
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
-- J. Michael Straczynski -
Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?
-- James Patterson -
It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids in their windows by January second to rub it in.
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The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.
-- Joyce Carol OatesSource : Joyce Carol Oates (1998). “The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque”, E P Dutton
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She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.
-- Julia QuinnSource : Julia Quinn (2007). “The secret diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever”
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I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't want to keep feeling this way, alone in a love affair meant for two. Even if he'd felt like The One. Even if I'd always thought we'd end up together. Even if he still had a choke chain on my heart.
-- Kristan Higgins -
Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love.
-- Lan Samantha Chang -
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Although love unreturned can drive you to despair, trust that somewhere out there, someone is waiting just for you.
-- Laura Ramirez