Unrequited quotes:

Send

Unrequited love's a bore. -- Lorenz Hart
Unrequited love is always a great thing. -- Neil LaBute
People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charles M. Schulz
I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness. -- Wilbur Smith
Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously. -- Cassandra Clare
On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare. -- Scott Turow
With 'Futurama,' I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our original plan was never to have Fry and Leela get together, we finally just said, 'You can only string the fans along so far.' -- Matt Groening
Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited. -- Cassandra Clare
Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences. -- Damon Galgut
I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands. -- Francesca Lia Block
I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs. -- Tasha Alexander
When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever. -- Sylvia Plath
She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years. -- Julia Quinn
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
I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced. -- Barbara Pym
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
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers! -- W.S. Gilbert
Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want. -- Louisa May Alcott
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. -- Sarah Dessen
Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love. -- Lan Samantha Chang
Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart. -- Christina Westover
--
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him. -- Alexander Pushkin
Theres so many other things to write about than unrequited love. -- Lucinda Williams
Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down. -- Sam Savage
Unrequited love is like hitting your head against a wall that isn't there. -- Shannon Wheeler
Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs. -- Alice Hoffman
Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth. -- George Sand
Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks -- Meg Cabot
Unrequited love is the only possible way to give yourself to another without being held in indentured servitude. -- Bauvard
Her voice is raw. She sings from the deepest cracks of her heart and her soul. When she closes her eyes, I know she has lost herself in the music. - Unrequited -- Alisa Mullen
--
Self-love seems so often unrequited. -- Anthony Powell
All love is unrequited. All of it. -- J. Michael Straczynski
There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love. -- Lucinda Williams
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited. -- Anthony Powell
I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies. -- Kate Christensen
Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure. -- Sloane Crosley
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. -- Emily Levine
Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast force - as in tens of millions strong - of wifeless men who'll gladly wage wars around the planet to burn off all those unrequited hormones. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
When I was a kid, I knew the black and white version of 'Jane Eyre,' and I guess I became interested in the idea of romantic love - of unrequited love and the tragedies of that; of what are the important things in life; what should one value over other materials. -- Cary Fukunaga
I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways. -- Ben Affleck
I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair. -- David Duchovny
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. -- Ayelet Waldman
The only love that lasts is unrequited love. -- Woody Allen
Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained -- Dan Brown
Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love. -- Tina Brown
Heart lesson #4: the unrequited heart. You can't make anyone love you back. -- Ibi Kaslik
How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate. -- Samuel Richardson
The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts. -- Allison Pearson
Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate. -- Lauren DeStefano
What an unrequited love it is, this thirst! But is it love, when it is unrequited? -- Eleanor Catton
There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich. -- Charles M. Schulz
Limerence is an obsessive, unrequited love. It is actually a disorder. A disease if you will. -- Elizabeth Cohen
This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup -- Frank Ocean
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love. -- Colin Meloy
When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special. -- Miranda Kenneally
November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love. -- Axl Rose
Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run. -- Adolfo Bioy Casares
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
If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is. -- Charles Dickens
I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love. -- Susan Sontag
--
The thing about unrequited love is that you try your hardest to survive the aftermath of a wild goose chase between fantasy and reality. -- Jourdane Erasquin
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. -- Sam Smith
The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection. -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
...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. -- Michael Connelly
The stars are but tears shed by a miriad of unrequited dreams; each sparks with fire and guides its light homeward when a dream is revealed -- Basith
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
I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush. -- Greta Salpeter
But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels... -- Rosamund Lupton
He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again. -- Stephen King
Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited! -- Peter Cosgrove
The female that loves unrequited sleeps, And the male that loves unrequited sleeps, The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps, And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep. -- Walt Whitman
Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path. -- Garrison Keillor
Canada has little pictures of us in its bedroom, right? Canada spends all of its time thinking about the United States, obsessing over the United States. It's unrequited love between Canada and the United States. -- Tucker Carlson

Send