Quotes About Not Being Loved In Return

#1. Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.

Tom Robbins

#2. To love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.

Leo Buscaglia

#3. Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return
though I can't imagine that
to love is a proof of life
indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.

Pearl S. Buck

#4. Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return
that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.

Dodie Smith

#5. [P]erhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return
that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

#6. What he was afraid of, he'd come to realize, was not dark spaces or falling from great heights or being buried alive. His greatest fears, in the end, were letting down those he loved and saying the words "I love you" without any hope of hearing them in return.

Abigail Roux

#7. You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon.
I loved being the supporting character,
because I felt it was my way of supporting you.
I asked for nothing in return
and wanted so much.

David Levithan

#8. Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Aldous Huxley

#9. The Christian life is not about all the things we do for God
it's about being loved by Him, loving Him in return, and walking in intimate union and communion with Him.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#10. In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved in return, I'd ask myself.

Katherine Dunn

#11. I don't know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. Regardless of how many people I surrounded myself with, no matter how many friends and family I loved and was loved by in return, I was alone at the moment of being born and at the moment of dying. Nobody came with you and nobody went with you. It was a journey of one.

Karen Marie Moning

#13. For in her stead. It's not the same, of course. But it's better to love others than to sit miserable without loving or being loved in return.

Rose Gordon

#14. It made no difference. Just to be in love
seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but true happiness.

Dodie Smith

#15. Everything he's done, everything he gave up and risked for me: Paul did all that without the slightest idea of being loved in return.

Claudia Gray

#16. A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

Aristotle.

#17. How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?

Elie Wiesel

#18. Being a woman, I tried, I cared, I loved and blamed in return.

Priyanka Bhowmick

#19. Awareness without awareness

Petra Hermans

#20. At least not until the Terror took hold of him. Not until he saw, night after night, a little boat being rowed across the river. Not until he saw it return at dawn. Not until he saw what his Untouchable son had touched. More than touched.
Enter.
Loved.

Arundhati Roy

#21. I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons.

Noam Chomsky

#22. Too much of something delicious becomes something poisonous.

Anne Heltzel

#23. God, I just love baseball.

Robert Redford

#24. The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.

Benjamin Spock

#25. Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Paulo Coelho

#26. As a species we're doomed by hope, then?

Margaret Atwood

#27. Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors.

Lavrentiy Beria

#28. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Maya Angelou