Top 100 Unrequited Quotes
#1. Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.
Cassandra Clare
#2. No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.
Colin Meloy
#3. Morpheus places his hand on Jeb's busy fingers, eyes opened to slits. "Ah, my pretty pseudo elf." He takes labored breath. "is it time at last to express our unrequited feelings?
A.G. Howard
#4. If you want to know how I felt, imagine your own feelings on waking one morning to find that income tax or unrequited love had somehow vanished from the world.
C.S. Lewis
#5. You can't go back. What's done is done. Unrequited love is never easy. Time heals all wounds. I kept repeating such cliches to myself, hoping that they, like medicine, would take away the sting.
They didn't.
Alice J. Wisler
#6. 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
#7. Unrequited love sucks. It should be against the law."
She brightened.
"If it was, then I could have Rick arrest me. I'd love to be handcuffed to him.
Carla Cassidy
#8. 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
#9. November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
Axl Rose
#10. I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#11. What does agonizical mean?" she asks. I hold up my hands like it's obvious. "To be consumed with shock and denial at unrequited love from the man who is supposed to be your soul mate,
Katie Kacvinsky
#12. There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.
Charles M. Schulz
#13. 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
#14. I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others, the 'economic means' for the satisfaction of needs, while the unrequited appropriation of the labor of others will be called the 'political means'.
Franz Oppenheimer
#15. Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down.
Sam Savage
#16. Was this love in its purest form, unrequited yet all-consuming and unselfish?
Jacqueline Patricks
#17. Unrequited love was never easy, but at least Penelope Featherington was used to it.
Julia Quinn
#18. What is the meaning of La Belle Dame Sans Merci? - have you never been enthralled? enchantment that is unrequited desolates the soul ...
John Geddes
#19. I know we will never be more than friends, but my heart is relentless. And a traitor. It abandoned me that day on the porch, leaving me to suffer in silence with my unrequited crush.
L.B. Simmons
#20. 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
#21. His hate wasn't professional; it was an obsession, a fixation, as if unrequited love had grown awful, twisted into something ugly.
Tom Rob Smith
#22. Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.
Suzanne Collins
#23. The unrequited love of ones' only living offspring has its own particular slow acid burn
David Nicholls
#25. The thing about songwriting," John Dogg was saying to someone, "is that you can address things obliquely, but no matter. You can't get away from the content that is the essence of the form. All songs are about unrequited love." "Except 'Green Onions,' " Ronnie said. "Which isn't about love at all.
Rachel Kushner
#26. It's thrilling to fight for a love that's entirely unrequited.
Paulo Coelho
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.
Tina Brown
#30. 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
#31. What an unrequited love it is, this thirst! But is it love, when it is unrequited?
Eleanor Catton
#32. 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
#33. The first time I read Gone with the Wind and Rhett walked out on Scarlett, I was fifteen and thought all that unrequited love was wildly romantic. The second time I read it, last summer, I thought she was silly and he was a selfish pig.
Jodi Picoult
#34. When I'm lonely, frustrated or hurt it usually comes from a male person and from unrequited love. I often carry that pain around with me and my ribs actually start to ache. That's when I sit down and write.
Pamela Anderson
#35. There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.
Lucinda Williams
#37. I sighed, because that's what unrequited love made you do. Sigh with self-pity.
Sariah Wilson
#38. But all my love ever came to was a bad end. Red-hot shoes, barrels studded with nails. That's what it feels like, unrequited love.
Margaret Atwood
#39. I suppose that 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 ahold of the other half.
Jan Ellison
#40. A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women do suffer therefrom, in all its infinite varieties: loss by death, by faithlessness or unworthiness, and by mistaken or unrequited affection.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#41. I wanted to come clean many times. I wanted to admit my jealousy, to confess my sarcasm and endless anger, to put all my cards on the table and say the word. But no I'm not that kind, I love deeply; innocently but alone, and my unrequited love will haunt me, forever ...
Invisible Sam
#42. The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.
Allison Pearson
#43. 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
#44. Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
Damon Galgut
#45. 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
#46. Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.
Lauren DeStefano
#47. So you could not love me? That is as I hoped. For while I like you immensely, I do not love you and it would be tragic indeed for you to suffer twice from unrequited love, wouldn't it, dear?
Margaret Mitchell
#49. 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
#50. Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
Alice Hoffman
#51. Mary adored her mother with a hopeless affection, like an unrequited crush. She understood this feeling was common in middle children, as Mary was, but there was also a story.
Justin Cronin
#52. 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
#53. Unshed tears of an unrequited desire for vengeance are exhausting and require privacy.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#54. On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
Scott Turow
#55. Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited love. The only authentic wound, the sweet curse they inflict on you, the revenge of heterosexuality.
Angela Carter
#56. People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.
Daniel Radcliffe
#57. You can't maintain top-dog status with any unrequited feelings out there.
A.D. Aliwat
#58. It's all heartbreak, death, and unrequited love." "Well, that is what most songs are about," said Will. "Requited love is ideal but doesn't make much of a ballad
Cassandra Clare
#59. Unrequited love is most painful. If you express you feeling it may hurt her/him but if don't express it will hurt you like hell.
Raj Singh
#60. 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
#61. Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. don't get that unrequited-love, moony-woo-woo look
Sarah J. Maas
#65. That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and
in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love
you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.
Ursula Hegi
#66. Unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.
Elle Newmark
#67. The only love that lasts is unrequited love.
Woody Allen
#68. 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
#69. Unrequited love is the best kind of all. But I can tell you with certainty, Robbie, that the other kind of love, the kind I received from your father for more than two decades, is far more necessary.
Jan Ellison
#70. unrequited love is like
kneeling on uncooked rice
and waiting for
the boiling water
of his kisses
to soften the pain
but he never comes.
K.Y. Robinson
#71. Because falling in love, even when it's unrequited, is not something that happens to only one person. The other person can't help getting involved, whether they like it or not.
Kate Le Vann
#72. We joked that unrequited, or in this case unconsummated, love affairs are the only ones that last forever.
Barbara Demick
#73. 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
#74. The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings. The things we regret and the things we yearn for. That's what makes us who we are.
Will Ferguson
#75. What the song expressed so perfectly from lyric to melody was unrequited love, and we men of the south loved nothing more than unrequited love, cracked hearts our primary weakness after cigarettes, coffee, and cognac.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#76. It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#77. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charlie Brown
#78. Her love has been always unrequited, but until now it wasn't real love. Now it hurts, and that's how she knows it is real.
Ellen Litman
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. He endured the curse of every man. He had suffered the inevitability of unrequited love.
Felix Alexander
#83. 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
#84. I love myself," he said. "But it's unrequited.
Tom Robbins
#85. 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
#86. Limerence is an obsessive, unrequited love. It is actually a disorder. A disease if you will.
Elizabeth Cohen
#87. When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.
Miranda Kenneally
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys ...
John Geddes
#94. There are bigger things to worry about. Bigger things than unrequited love and false kisses.
Janet Gurtler
#95. Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.
George Sand
#96. 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.
#97. For the record, chocolate's a pretty decent antidote for unrequited love.
Cidney Swanson
#98. Gallons of ink and miles of typewriter ribbon expended on the misery of the unrequited lover; not a word about the utter tedium of the unrequiting.
Tom Stoppard
#99. 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
#100. 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
