Unrequited Love Quotes

• 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.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memorable, Heartbreaking, Afternoon

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• To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Memorable, Punishment, Desire

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

  Tablo

  Losing Someone, Sad Relationship, Trying

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• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Food, Romantic Love

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

  Julia Roberts

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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• You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Relationship, Broken Heart

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• The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Life, Dream

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.178, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Depression

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• The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Heartbreak

  "A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 13), 1949.

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• 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

  Love, Real, Winning

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

  Sylvia Plath

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Memorable

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• I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Memorable, Feelings, Unrequited

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2000). “Selected Works: Including The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey, Faust”, Everyman's Library

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

  James Patterson

  Life, Want Something, Knowing

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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

  Wayne Dyer

  Closing My Eyes, Giving, Energy

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Wisdom of the Ages: A Modern Master Brings Eternal Truths into Everyday Life”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• If we must part for ever,
  Give me but one kind word to think upon,
  And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!

  Thomas Otway

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  "Best Plays".

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• All love is unrequited. All of it.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Love Is, Unrequited

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• The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

  St. Jerome

  Cute, Love You, Heart

  "Saint Jerome Collection [5 Books]". Book by Saint Jerome, Aeterna Press, Letter LIV, 2016.

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• Perhaps a great love is never returned.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Love Is, Great Love

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• Look after my heart - I've left it with you.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Twilight, Heart

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Eclipse”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Grief, Grieving

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 01, 2011

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• People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  People, Incredibles, Unrequited

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• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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

  Wilbur Smith

  Loneliness, Thinking, Poignant

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• Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

  Merle Shain

  Love, Fear, Heart

  "Some Men are More Perfect Than Others". Book by Merle Shain, 1973.

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• Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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