Unrequited Quotes

Its not the love that hurts but the scented memories of anticipated dreams of a future together

The time when you wish if death was possible from a heartbreak

If you are ready to cry..to feel the pain..to take the risk? You are ready for love

The unspoken feeling that engulfs you and smolders you more and more each day.....love!

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?

For a moment, blake said nothing. After chewing on her venom for a moment, he shrugged. "I would rather hate you for who I am than love me for who I am not

A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers. Kestrel looked away from Arin. She swore to herself that she would never look back

There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms.

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

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

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

you’re gone andyour unfinished poemlies alone on my desk—empty of tears, I only hope it rains today

But I love him.""So love him.""But I miss him.""So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it.

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.

Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?

She felt tears slip from beneath her lashes, no matter how she tried to blink them back. Her heart was ablaze. It seemed that her entire life had led to this man, this moment of unexpressed love.

I came hoping to see those eyes, but instead I return with my heart, leaving behind only flowers.

Some are convicted for breaking the heart…some are the victims of broken heart – Irony of unrequited love.

To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.

A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.

We're cool, " I say calmly, although I feel something else. I feel... sad. Like I've lost something I never quite had.

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.

I loved you even when you forgot me.And—for a little while—you loved me back.

The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.

Besides, unrequited love is one of those things that all teen-agers have to go through, right?

Which is when I decided I would never love anyone again because you just felt like an idiot when you put love out there and it didn't come back your way.

In the garden, the Captain of the Guard stared up at the young woman's balcony, watching as she waltzed alone, lost in her dreams. But he knew her thoughts weren't of him.

Let her remain where she is. A constellation away.

She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes.

She had the look in her eye when you kick and kick at the door and it doesn't open, when you write a boy letters and letters and he never loves you, not ‘til the day he dies. Not even then.

Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.

Why doesn't she want me? The sun is rising now, but it is 93, 000, 000 miles away and I can't get warm... She won't be cold. She has the sun inside her.

And, long after Clark had gone home, Solomon stayed up wondering if everyone falls in love with someone who can't love them back.

I've decided to take this unrequited love, and quietly put it away in a corner of my heart as a bittersweet page of my youth.

I wanted to say "don't leave me, " but I'm so tired of begging people to stay.

...the hardest word to swallow is almost.

You're hung up on something that's never going to love you back.

She was limp and pathetic and woozy and I loved her, I realised, even more because I knew how completely it was doomed.

I've dreamt of us falling in love and being together in a million different ways, yet I still wake up in the one way without you.

I thought that you could hear all my unspoken words.....for I misunderstood the language of my own love was so intense and your ears were so brittle!

At that moment the ghost dance seems to Zinnia like the relationship of two people who never quite consummate the love they feel for each other.

My head is full of seeing you see me.

That you should not be here when something we've both wanted happens is no new thing for me. Today too, as always, you're not here.

Every night I build a fire for you, Alowa. Every night I dance on the rooftop for you. Look at the flames, Alowa. Aren’t they beautiful? Look at the smoke. I’m dancing in the smoke, Alowa.

If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too

It is a horrible wonderful thing to be in love with you. To get to hear you sing for hour after hour but never be the subject of the song. To listen and listen and listen.

I'm the absolute queen bee of unrequited love.

She is the weakness you think of as strength while I am the strength you have no idea is there.

What an unrequited love it is, this thirst! But is it love, when it is unrequited?

She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been deeply felt.