Unrequited Quotes
Unrequited Quote of the day
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
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.
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!
When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.
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.
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
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!
It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup
Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?
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
Love songs in particular are so compelling because love is probably the strongest emotion you can have, and I think it's relatable to absolutely everyone, whether it's unrequited love or love.
I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love.
There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.
She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.
Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.
It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.
Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.
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.
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.
Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.
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.
I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.
I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.
I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.
And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.
Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.
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.
On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
