Top 100 Quotes About Love Unrequited
#1. 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
#2. Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.
Lauren DeStefano
#4. The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.
Kiran Joshi
#5. You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
David Levithan
#6. Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.
Cassandra Clare
#7. I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.
Esther Dalseno
#8. It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.
Tasha Alexander
#9. And this," cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully.
Jane Austen
#10. A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.
Abraham Cowley
#11. It's as if I've stepped off the edge of a cliff, and even though my heart's in my mouth and my stomach is in knots, I'm the most excited I've ever been in my life. I'm totally enthralled by him. I want him, every part of him, and I desperately want him to feel the same way about me.
Serena Grey
#12. We fall for those who cross our paths but we don't exist to them." -Maryann Gestwicki, Author
-Unrequited Love,2015
Maryann Gestwicki
#13. 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.
Cassandra Clare
#14. Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
Cassandra Clare
#15. You have shown me the best of you.
Its time to turn a new leaf.
-New Leaf
Book:Unrequited Love
Maryann Gestwicki
#17. For a full two hours, he stood at that door, a cloud of uncertainty ruling his mind. Damian felt like his heart was about to burst. Could she love him? Was it really true?
Elaine White
#18. Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can't say, and you just walk away. And I forgot to tell you I love you.
Sarah McLachlan
#19. There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.
B.G. Bowers
#20. He offered his love ... she could not bother,
She gives her love to the other! The other!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#21. 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
#22. I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.
Francesca Lia Block
#23. Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.
Peter Heller
#24. I know I only want him,' she said between sobs, the syllables all wrong, 'because he doesn't want me. How is that even possible?'
'It's normal to want what we can't have,' I said soothingly.
'No, I mean how can he not want me?
Olivia Sudjic
#25. 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
#26. You know, unrequited love is very difficut? It's not just having this one-sided love of someone who's far away. Being close, talking daily, liking a guy who's constantly near me is harder than it would be under different circumstances.
Park So Hee
#27. Unrequited love made right is the ultimate, isn't it?
Bella Andre
#28. You may be the man of my dreams that accidentally manifested in the wrong form. Forever to be my unrequited.
Truth Devour
#30. And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?
Garth Risk Hallberg
#31. You knew I was confused, tormented, but you enticed me - led me on ...
John Geddes
#32. If there's one thing I've learned this year it's that if you're meant to be with someone, it will happen. You can't force love. So even if it means that your first love becomes unrequited, then you should move on because maybe there's someone better for you." I
Blair Holden
#33. The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
Thornton Wilder
#34. I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.
Susan Sontag
#35. I suppose unrequited love is the hardest kind to shed because it is not really love at all. It is a half-love, and we are forever stomping around trying to get hold of the other half.
Jan Ellison
#36. I just stood there, like a grain of sand amongst a
million others on a beach.
Jeff Erno
#37. I'm starting to learn that if things are messy, or pieces don't get put back right, they are going to hurt, either way.
R. YS Perez
#38. And it was easier to have an unrequited love than to get all fussed and dressed and go out on dates every Saturday with men she was never going to fall in love with. So she'd quit dating, quit dressing up - and on the whole she was happier than she'd been before.
Patricia Briggs
#39. Fearful that they would be caught, the young lovers cast themselves into the sea with their stone, saying these words, May we ever be united in love and hidden as long as this stone hides in deep waters.
Rebecca Boucher
#40. The person she liked best didn't like her enough to want more of her, and she didn't want to pretend that wasn't awful.
Leigh Bardugo
#41. They might be kind, I thought. They might be sensible and good. They will not be like you.
But I did not say it. I knew it would mean nothing to her. I said something - something ordinary and mild, I cannot think what. And after a time she came and kissed my cheek, and then she left me.
Sarah Waters
#43. Love?' he asked himself, giving no sense of recognition for that word in the dictionary of his mind. It was the only battle he had lost in life, the only thing that had been snatched away from him, before he could even claim it.
Faraaz Kazi
#44. No one had ever given me any idea on how to handle it when the right one came along, but you weren't the right one for him.
Jay Crownover
#45. He silenced the thought, already itching to get inside her, his tongue, or his fingers, or his cock. After all these years of wanting, he would gladly accept whatever access to her body she gave him. He just wanted in.
Amber Belldene
#46. To know true love, even though it was impossible to keep, had finally cracked her heart open enough to let someone else in.
Andrea Hurst
#48. I wanted so terribly to be good to him.
Dodie Smith
#49. The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.
Beth Kephart
#50. And said with the softness of repressed violence, 'I am not one to stick his neck out; it is a bit of a reach. I was waiting for the smallest sign that you could love me ... I never got it.'
Laertes, Count of Samothrace
Rebecca Ashe
#51. I wanted to say "don't leave me," but I'm so tired of begging people to stay.
R. YS Perez
#52. Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks
Meg Cabot
#53. Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion - it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.
Mercedes Lackey
#54. Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn't meant to be.
Gregory David Roberts
#55. She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.
John Dufresne
#56. For the record, chocolate's a pretty decent antidote for unrequited love.
Cidney Swanson
#57. To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#58. If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let go. There was no way around it. But did I want to be free of it - and him?
Kat Von D.
#61. Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.
George Sand
#62. There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.
Georgette Heyer
#63. There are bigger things to worry about. Bigger things than unrequited love and false kisses.
Janet Gurtler
#64. I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys ...
John Geddes
#65. Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.
Criss Jami
#66. What I cannot touch, remains a memory. I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be.
Ayushee Ghoshal
#67. She was so fed up with unrequited love and platonic love and all the other kinds of love that weren't passionate, romantic, can't-live-without-you, I-have-to-have-you-right-now, the-beat-of-your-heart-matches-the-beat-of-mine love.
Sarra Manning
#68. He doesn't even like me.
I let the thought roll around in my head. Anything I feel during that time gets shoved into the vault with the ten-foot-think door slamming as soon as it goes in, just in case something in there has any intention of crawling out.
Susan Ee
#69. Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn't have. Maybe there's a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#70. The truth is that there is almost nothing as tiresome as unwanted love.
Sheila Kohler
#71. My whole body sings to be near him,because every movement he makes is charged with electricity.I often think of putting my arms around him or running my fingers along his lips.When I let my thoughts go there the sharp pain of unrequited love invites the migraine in.
E. Lockhart
#72. Relationships are never complicated. You're either together or you're not. If someone says it's complicated, it really just means someone's killing time until something better comes along.
Teresa Lo
#73. I wanted her to know just how much I loved her while also letting her know that she bore not one particle of blame for not loving me back.
But I wouldn't say that. It was rosepetals I wanted to throw, not a poison dart.
Donna Tartt
#74. 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
#75. Unrequited love can give you butterflies and tingly lips and lovely, dizzy days where you analyze every word of every sentence they've ever said to you ... but you cry a lot too.
Kate Le Vann
#76. No god will spare you forgiveness for loving me.
Liam Levi
#77. When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.
Miranda Kenneally
#78. No matter how bleak, there is still chance of love in hatred but none in indifference
Kiran Joshi
#79. Never stop believing that your dreams are eternal.
Truth Devour
#80. Olivia sat back and propped her half-boots on the table. 'So far it's working. He has to return to me because I have his sister hostage.' She briefly put her fingertips to her lips. 'Did I just say that? I mean I'm protecting the baby sister and earning his trust
Kresley Cole
#81. While you were protecting me from the world, just never thought you'd be my greatest enemy
Vivian E. Moore
#82. Limerence is an obsessive, unrequited love. It is actually a disorder. A disease if you will.
Elizabeth Cohen
#83. There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it not been sanctioned by mutual assent. True or false.
Lawrence Krauser
#84. PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
Walter Raleigh
#85. I love myself," he said. "But it's unrequited.
Tom Robbins
#86. He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax ...
Bohumil Hrabal
#87. His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her ... He's probably forgotten that I'm here, beside him
Ai Yazawa
#88. How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!
Charles Dickens
#89. He endured the curse of every man. He had suffered the inevitability of unrequited love.
Felix Alexander
#90. I can't give you the moon," the tinker said. "She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.
Patrick Rothfuss
#91. And, long after Clark had gone home, Solomon stayed up wondering if everyone falls in love with someone who can't love them back.
John Corey Whaley
#92. Guys are totally stupid when it comes to unrequited love. We females pine away and keep our thighs closed for the most part when we love someone we can't have. Guys swing their shit around at anything that has a hole, trying to forget the one they want.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#93. If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.
Robert Goolrick
#94. Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.
George Bernard Shaw
#95. The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong man.
N.K. Jemisin
#96. Never fall in love with someone that won't fight for you because when the real battles begin they won't pull your heart to safety, but they will their own.
Shannon L. Alder
#97. I will treat language with resigned delight, embrace it like unrequited love, offer words to you with a kind of secret shame, for I know that sometimes there is such a thing as too much language, and that language can hold a kind of sincerity that is tiresome and overwrought.
Meia Geddes
#98. I was too busy writing sad ballads to unrequited love in my head and planning a life where my hand would be my boyfriend.
T.J. Klune
#99. Unrequited love is like buying a dress that you can't fit into but you promise yourself you'll diet for - you can't think about the dress, only about the fact that your body is too big for it.
Kate Le Vann
#100. Problems can be fixed. But unrequited love is a tragedy.
Suzanne Harper
