Unrequited Love Quotes

 Unrequited Love Quotes

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”
― Shannon L. Alder 

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

 “And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“...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, The Book of Unholy Mischief

“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home 

“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister

“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, The Truth About Forever

“If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”
― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”
― Shannon L. Alder 

“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.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women   

“Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”
― Christina Westover 

“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.”
― Rose Gordon, Her Imperfect Groom 

 “the saddest thing is to be
a minute to someone,
when you've made them your eternity.”
― Sanober Khan

“sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen.”
― Melissa Jensen, The Fine Art of Truth or Dare

“Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

“When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.”
― Miranda Kenneally, Catching Jordan

“Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'

'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.”
― Cassandra Clare 

“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.”
― Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

“I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.”
― Alma Katsu, The Taker

“nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“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.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When you experience loss, people say you’ll move through the 5 stages of grief….
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
….. What they don’t tell you is that you’ll cycle through them all every day.”
― Ranata Suzuki  

“It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.”
― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz

“My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.”
― Meredith Taylor, Churning Waters

“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.”
― Kiran Joshi 

“All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.”
― Cathleen Schine, The Love Letter 

“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.”
― Karen Tayleur, Love Notes From Vinegar House

“I never hated you. My anger was never with you, but with the little hell my heart had put me in. The anger always passed. I never regretted loving you. If I had gone to my grave never kissing you or touching you, I still would not have thought it a wasted love.”
― Madeline Hunter, The Romantic  

 “She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

 “Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.”
― Kellie Elmore

“The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It was involuntary, hopeless, compulsive. For years she had been the first thing I remembered when I woke up, the last thing that drifted through my mind as I went to sleep, and during the day she came to me obtrusively, obsessively, always with a painful shock.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

 

  “Everything tells me you care for me. And yet never a sign from you.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“Chronic depression is the emotional compound interest paid on the inability to let go of an unrequited love.”
― Khang Kijarro Nguyen

   

“let's light a candle for you not wanting me back”
― Melissa Broder, Scarecrone

“Every now and then, two men kill each other over a woman who neither loves nor likes either of them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana  

“I can't say what I was looking for exactly, though I was ever hopeful that he might come out and profess his love, save me, run away with me, solve all my problems.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen 

  “I mean, here's the thing I don't get. How do people come to expect that their crushes will be reciprocated? Like, how does that get to be your default assumption.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“I don’t entirely understand how anyone gets a boyfriend. Or a girlfriend. It just seems like the most impossible odds. You have to have a crush on the exact right person at the exact right moment. And they have to like you back. A perfect alignment of feelings and circumstances. It’s almost unfathomable that it happens as often as it does.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

 “The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”
― Emily Dickinson 

“Trying to get someone interested in us (who is not) is a painful and pointless endeavour. There are many people in the world. Some are for us. Most are not.”
― Donna Goddard, Faith

  “You're the queen of pushing people away before they can say they like you. The queen of rejecting first so you can't be rejected.”
― Maggie Ann Martin, To Be Honest

“I've enough pride never to let myself love a man who does not love me.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina  

 “Will this pain leave as quickly as you did?”
― Karl Kristian Flores, Cardiac Ablation

“You never forget someone you've loved once.”
― Priya Prithviraj, I Still Remember  

“And in the end, I said you would love me. We’re in the end and there’s only one of us here.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I joined social media to get over an unrequited love of real life.”
― Maria Karvouni

 “The real horror of my life is not that I've killed some terrible people. The real horror is that the people I've loved didn't love me back.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies   

 “Fortunate are those who are loved back
Even fortunate those whose love is cul”
― Zubair Ahsan 

“I erased the imprints you've left in your wake so that in the distant future, when you eventually feel the need to look back, you won't find any evidence of my treacherous heart.”
― Theresa Mariz, All the Feelings That We Hide

  “Men like you happen once. Women like me prefer to live our lives cautiously with your after taste, lessons and splinters of broken heart underneath our tongues.”
― Ayushee Ghoshal, 4 AM Conversations

“A broken heart can be as lethal as a bullet to the brain.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman 

“But the whole thing didn't go anywhere—though it never went away either. It just sat there, no past, no future, like a glass of wine filled to the rim but never drunk from.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations 

“She could only hold on to her husband with both hands and promise herself that the best way to keep someone was to let him go.”
― Lauren Willig, The English Wife

“You can give birth to a beautiful, perfect human being, but requited love isn’t guaranteed for her—or for any of us.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Winter Street 

“Unrequited love is love pantomime.”
― Marty Rubin    

“My heart’s been empty since you left - but still I refuse to put up a vacancy sign.
I’m just not ready for anybody else to move in yet.”
― Ranata Suzuki 

“A big issue that some empaths face is unrequited love and all the grief that accompanies this experience. If someone truly is your soulmate or twin flame, the relationship will happen sooner or later. Don’t put your life on hold for another person, no matter how badly you want to be with them. If it’s meant to be, it will be.”
― Mateo Sol, Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing

“It is a terrible, wretched thing to love someone whom you know cannot love you. There are things that are more dreadful. There are many human pains more grievous. And yet it remains both terrible and wretched. Like so many things, it is insoluble.”
― Naomi Alderman, Disobedience

“I wanted her to know just how much I loved her while also letting her know that she bore not one particle of blame for not loving me back.
But I wouldn’t say that. It was rosepetals I wanted to throw, not a poison dart.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch    

“Once you start learning how to choose the peaceful, a small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man, can be enough of a lover. But if you go on asking for more and more, then thousands of men are not enough. Even the most beautiful man is finished sooner or later. Your desire goes on and on. It knows no end... it stops nowhere.”
― Osho, Beloved of My Heart: A Darshan Diary 

“In a way, it was the same as any normal break up. You took what was yours …. and I kept what I’d had from before we were together…
You took my heart …. and I had nothing…”
― Ranata Suzuki  

“You're hung up on something that's never going to love you back.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire 

“Though I never really had you….
… to me you will always be the one that got away.”
― Ranata Suzuki  

“I try to do something positive – I socialise more…
But deep down I know the truth.
An entire world of people can never replace the one that I’ve lost.”
― Ranata Suzuki 

“Everybody wants their own little place in the world. And maybe mine is here… Loving you from a distance…”
― Ranata Suzuki 

“It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life…
But what hurts more is knowing you’ll revise that chapter someday….
….. and you’ll erase me completely.”
― Ranata Suzuki 

“How do you love someone and just… walk away? Just like that.
You just, go on as normal…. You get up, get dressed, go to work… How can you do that?
How can you be okay with that?”
― Ranata Suzuki 

“What no one ever told me was that sometimes ‘time’ only adds layers to the wounds and if you scratch off the dust years later, you will still find him in your blood and flesh, residing in a vacant house that you thought had no tenants.
Time.
They never said that time only teaches us regrets.”
― Ayushee Ghoshal 

“Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers.”
― dexter palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion 

“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, The Chaos of Longing

“You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love.”
― -Ayushee Ghoshal, 4 AM Conversations with the Ghosts of Old Lovers  

“Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it's not bad, but afterwards it leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Diary of a Superfluous Man

“I became another man. I tried to reread the classics that had guided me in adolescence, and I could not bear them. I buried myself in the romantic writings I had repudiated when my mother tried to impose them on me with a heavy hand, and in them I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores 

“I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk down that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart, Tessa. I would give over my own life for either of yours. I perhaps that when you told me you did not love me my feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that. It is unfair to tell you this, I know, when you can do nothing about it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Have you ever loved someone so much that even when they chip pieces away from you, you still try to give them what’s left? I know I have… I know I do.”
― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back

“Some people are like an open grave:
You give it the thing you love most
And then get nothing in return.”
― Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets  

“What an unrequited love it is, this thirst! But is it love, when it is unrequited?”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries  

“Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?'

'That's the very thing I say to myself,' said Gabriel.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“I'm not unlucky at love, just incredibly lucky with celibacy.”
― tim heaton  

 “The only thing sadder than unrequited love is being in a relationship where there is unrequited love.”
― Shannon L. Alder 

“It was all a matter of timing," she says. "My train was late that day. The day I saw you drop your notebook. Had it been on schedule we never would have met. Maybe we were never meant to. It was a possibility, one of thousands, and not inevitable, the way some things are.”
― Erin Morgenstern  

“The unrequited love of ones' only living offspring has its own particular slow acid burn”
― David Nicholls  

“Kat stood immobile and watched with pain, a kiss of passion, a kiss of desire; a kiss that could never be hers.”
― Kiki Archer, But She Is My Student

“Even before you touched me, I belonged to you; all you had to do was look at me.”
― Louise Glück 

“She remembered how her heart, so tight, like a scroll, had opened when Arin kissed her.
It had unfurled.
If her heart were truly a scroll, she could burn it.
It would become a tunnel of flame, a handful of ash.
The secrets she had written inside herself would be gone. No one would know”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse  

“Which is worse? Loving someone and not being able to be with them or not loving someone and having to be with them.”
― Donna Lynn Hope 

“The time when you wish if death was possible from a heartbreak”
― Kiran Joshi, Beyond forever...in love 

“The Hardest thing about being broken, isn't the Love you don't receive,
It's the Love you long to give that nobody wants..”
― Dinesh Kumar Biran  

“The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.”
― Kiran Joshi, Beyond forever...in love  

“These feelings...the ugly feelings in my heart...should have been blown away...and buried deep in the sands...”
― Rei Tōma, Dawn of the Arcana, Vol. 9 

“No matter how bleak, there is still chance of love in hatred but none in indifference”
― Kiran Joshi, Beyond forever...in love

  
 “Time didn’t heal my heal wounds but it lent me perspective. My vision was no longer clouded and I saw what I’d become. I’d let inspiration become obsession. Tunnel vision had hindered all progress. I was so fixated on you, I got stuck.”
― Ashley Sarel 

“That thing that Hamlet says - "there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so". Not quite true if you are stuck under a grand piano, not quite true for genocide, but surely it must be true about love?”
― deborah meyler  

“Sometimes people leave us because staying becomes an impossibility. Because the world just gets too small. Or, sometimes, because there is just one boat, and too many hands. ...Because maybe, life can be a bit bigger than it exists today. And because, somewhere else, there may be another boat.”
― Collier Lumpkin, Love, to Taste

“He offered his love ... she could not bother,
She gives her love to the other! The other!”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

“Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had abandoned all hope of ever enjoying?”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“Love is the one thing in this world that you should never have to go through alone… For unreciprocated love is the most soul crushing experience you will ever go through.”
― Ben Mitchell 

“I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“Eventually, I spent so much time in the friend zone
that I grew to think of it as some kind
of magical home away from home, some lush forest
filled with unicorns and elves and puppies
none of whom were getting laid.”
― Dylan Garity

“Some are convicted for breaking the heart…some are the victims of broken heart – Irony of unrequited love.”
― Heenashree Khandelwal, Soulmates, By Chance

“I can't do it anymore... The way you consume my mind when we aren't together? I don't have time for it anymore. I've got more important things to think about now than your little weak moments ”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed 

“It’s bad enough to love someone who don’t love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes me wild just to think of it. Ah, Fan, I’m getting so ill tempered and envious and wicked, I don’t know what will happen to me. - Polly”
― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

“Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever.”
― Shannon L. Alder  

“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, Four & Twenty Blackbirds

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love”
― Clive Barker