Unrequited Love Quotes

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.

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

It’s a song about first relationships and letting go. It’s very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earth’s gravitational pull and where it’s going to take people and how they’re going to grow. I’ve heard it said that you can’t really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. It’s a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you can’t have forever.

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.

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

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.

Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

Stop giving energy to the things you don't want.

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

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

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.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

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 had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't want to keep feeling this way, alone in a love affair meant for two. Even if he'd felt like The One. Even if I'd always thought we'd end up together. Even if he still had a choke chain on my heart.

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.