When Love Is Not Returned Quotes

#1. Once upon a time, a prince fell madly in love with a demon from the Underworld. When she disappeared back into the sea, he ached so much for her that he walked into the ocean and never returned.
- Kenettran Folk Tales, various authors

Marie Lu

#2. When I returned in the next stage of life, I wish to return as Lailah Gifty Akita.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#4. Perhaps a great love is never returned.

Dag Hammarskjold

#5. All love stories have much in common. I wen through the same thing at one point in my life. But that's not what I remember. What I remember is that love returned in the form of another man, new hopes, and new dreams.

Paulo Coelho

#6. I am sorry " I murmured.
"I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to my hair.
"I just cannot bear to be kept out of your life " I said into the dark.
He gave a sigh. "Julia you daft woman. When you will you understand You are my life.

Deanna Raybourn

#7. You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned. I miss you terribly. Ci vedremo lassu, angelo.

Timothy Conigrave

#8. I guess the hardest thing is having so much love for you and it somehow not being returned. I develop crushes all the time, but that is just misdirected need for you. You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned.

Timothy Conigrave

#9. His eyes danced like a teenager. "Eat anyone alive today?" her father joked.
Ruby returned his wicked grin and sauntered into the living room. "Not today, but tomorrow's another day.

Stephanie Greenhalgh

#10. Theirs is the stoneless fruit of love
Whose love is returned.

Tiruvalluvar

#11. Trust is not an obsession, it's an extension of love. When we truly love someone, we give them our heart to hold in their hands. And when that love is returned, that very trust is balm to our souls.

Julie Lessman

#12. May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Marianne Williamson

#13. He separated you from what you love, to teach you about the nature of this life. Then He returned to you what you love, to teach you about the nature of the next.

Yasmin Mogahed

#14. I want her to be happy, and she's most happy with you. Maybe this will make up for ... past mistakes." He shook his head and returned to his normal idiocy. "So, either you say, 'Sure, I'd love to have you along,' or you have a big bird dropping things on your head the whole trip.

Julie Kagawa

#15. The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its being returned - which, perhaps, is the only way of feeling it permanently.

Marthe Bibesco

#16. There's no greater gift than a love returned in equal measure.

Lorraine Heath

#17. In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.

Paulo Coelho

#18. Although not always simultaneous in taking effect, nor necessarily at all equal in voltage, the process of love is rarely unilateral. When the moment comes, a secret attachment is often returned with interest. Some know this by instinct; others learn in a hard school.

Anthony Powell

#19. One only realizes the extent of his love when he thinks he has lost the one he loves; and unhappily, very often only begins to love when he feels his love is not returned.

Waguih Ghali

#20. But too much love is poison, especially when that love is not returned.

Rick Riordan

#21. I sent a mass of thanks, love, trust through Constantine's threads, as I escaped. Resigned acceptance, irritation, and grudging fondness returned along the path.

Anne Zoelle

#22. We are what we love, Connie. The secret - the thing we hope for - is having that love returned.

Anthony Quinn

#23. Love is a condition that tends to cloud men's reason, but it is not fatal. Usually all the patient needs is to have his love returned, and he will snap out of it and begin to sniff the air in search of new prey

Isabel Allende

#24. I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe ... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.

Ornella Muti

#25. Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned.

Alice Hoffman

#26. True love means knowing that your love may never be returned, and loving all the more because of it.

Michel Templet

#27. And love was always a beautiful thing, even when it wasn't returned.

Marian Tee

#28. Love is the one thing that's not easy to find. It's an achievement, Eddie, to feel such a glorious emotion, whether it's returned or not. Some men never do.

Alice Hoffman

#29. Unconditional love asks nothing, not even that it be returned.

Ted Chiang

#30. The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.

Ann Patchett

#31. This Scarlet ... you're in love with her, aren't you?" He froze, becoming stone still. As the hover climbed the hill to the palace, his shoulders sank, and he returned his gaze to the window. "She's my alpha,

Marissa Meyer

#32. Why waste romance on a love that would never be returned?

Julia Quinn

#33. everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the way you want it to.

but i have hope
because i do not know everything.

AVA.

#34. I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have.

John Green

#35. I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you. You should not love me. One ought not to love the moon. If you come too near me, I will hurt you.

Anais Nin

#36. It's a funny thing about love: you don't need to have it returned to love somebody. Loving's enough.
A Prologue to Love

Taylor Caldwell

#37. Happy is love or friendship when returned
The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.

Bion Of Smyrna

#38. Of course, some families cannot be saved and their children cannot be returned. Yet, even then, their love for each other must be worth something.

Andrew Bridge

#39. Always remember
You are loved
You carry the love
You spread the love
You radiate the love
And the love is returned to you

Karen Hackel

#40. She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

Oscar Wilde

#41. Tack's voice was granite when he started, "They will not take her boy, and the time to fuck with Carissa Teodoro is now over."
Joker's voice was a quiet growl when he started, "You know you got my love, brother."
"I do," Tack returned. "And it's a privilege, Carson.

Kristen Ashley

#42. When they would return to one another from their solitariness, they returned gently as dew comes to the morning grass.

David Paul Kirkpatrick