Unrequited Love Quotes - Page 3

• Unrequited love's a bore.

  Lorenz Hart

  Bores, Unrequited

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• 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.

  Walt Whitman

  Sleep, Males, Female

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.110, NYU Press

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• I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Cherish, Driven

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “The Poems of Goethe”, p.285

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• It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied, the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source.

  James W. Hall

  Love, Hunger, Twisted

  James W. Hall (2007). “Magic City: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art to contain a touch of melancholia. So melancholia in itself is a value. Unhappy and unrequited love is more romantic than happy love. For we don’t think that’s completely real, do we?…Longing is true. It may be that there’s no truth at all to long for, but the longing itself is true. Just like pain is true. We feel it inside. It’s part of our reality.

  Lars von Trier

  Art, Pain, Real

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  Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Letting Go, Fear

  Bill Russell, Taylor Branch (1980). “Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man”

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• Unrequited love made right is the ultimate, isn’t it?

  Bella Andre

  Made, Unrequited, Ultimate

  Bella Andre (2014). “Let Me Be the One: The Sullivans: (Contemporary Romance)”, p.57, Oak Press, LLC

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• I think there's nothing more painful for anyone than unrequited love. If you've ever had that kind of physical access to someone and then, all of a sudden, that is denied, and yet you're still in love with that person, it's very, very, very painful to be around that person in a certain way.

  Tom Ford

  Thinking, Kind, Painful

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• Unrequited love is like hitting your head against a wall that isn't there.

  Shannon Wheeler

  Wall, Love Is, Hitting

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• Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.

  Alain de Botton

  Hurt, Giving Up, Pain

  Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Alexander Pushkin

  Love Is, Men, Affront

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• Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartache

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.220, Delphi Classics

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• Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

  Tina Brown

  Powerful, Hostility, Powerful Women

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• One thing I've always struggled with in life is loving people too much. It's painful when that love is not reciprocated. But one thing I always comfort myself with is the fact that Allah will always show greater love to those who love Him. Allah doesn't disappoint you so keep your heart attached to Him.

  Omar Suleiman

  Heart, Love Is, People

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from May 30, 2014

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• She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.

  T. H. White

  Pain, Heart, Rocks

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.366, Penguin

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• Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can't say, and you just walk away. And I forgot to tell you I love you.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Love You, Too Much, Walks

  Song: I Love You, Album: Surfacing

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• There’s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think it’s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesn’t return your affections might be exciting in books, but in life it’s unbearably boring. I’ll tell you what’s exciting: sweaty, passionate nights. But sitting on the veranda outside the home of a sleeping woman who isn’t dreaming about you is slow moving and just plain sad.

  Steve Toltz

  Dream, Moving, Book

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.116, Spiegel & Grau

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• Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Love, Broken Heart, Views

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Reality, Peanut Butter, Sandwiches

  "Fictional character: Charlie Brown". "You're in Love, Charlie Brown", www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

  George Sand

  Love Is, Errors, Different

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• When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.

  Miranda Kenneally

  Memorable, Love Is, Special

  Miranda Kenneally (2011). “Catching Jordan”, p.183, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• 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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Memorable, Men, Sides

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.225, Courier Corporation

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• November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.

  Axl Rose

  Song, Rain, November

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• On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

  Scott Turow

  Together, Love And Death, Streets

  Scott Turow (2014). “The Laws of our Fathers”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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• I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love - plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing - turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness. Neither could James. He understood. In such situations, you do one of two things - you either walk away and deny yourself, or you do sneaky things to get what you need. You attend weddings, you go for walks. You say, yes. Yes, you're my best friend, too.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Girl, Boys, Two

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