Unrequited Love Quotes - Page 5

• Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Sleep, Vanity

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.40, Barron's Educational Series

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• A mighty pain to love it is,
  And 'tis a pain that pain to miss;
  But, of all pains, the greatest pain
  Is to love, but love in vain.

  Abraham Cowley

  Love, Life, Pain

  Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1707). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed; and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies. With The Cutter of Coleman-street”, p.55

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• For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself that she really wasn't the right country for you- just won't leave you in peace.

  Eric Weiner

  Country, Thinking, Trying

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• When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Mother, Children, Father

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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

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

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• The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

  Allison Pearson

  Love Is, Lasts, Kind

  Allison Pearson (2003). “I Don't Know how She Does it: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Love, Soul, Body

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• Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.

  Sybil Adelman

  Love You, Passion, Memorable

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love.

  Lan Samantha Chang

  Love Is, Unrequited, Inadequate

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• The only love that lasts is unrequited love.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Lasts, Unrequited

  "Fictional character: Prostitute". "Shadows and Fog", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• I hate the day, because it lendeth light
  To see all things, but not my love to see.

  Edmund Spenser

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  Edmund Spenser (1849). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings”, p.440

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• This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup

  Frank Ocean

  Men, Styrofoam, Cyanide

  Song: Bad Religion, Album: Channel Orange, 2012

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• It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids in their windows by January second to rub it in.

  Joan Bauer

  New Year, Valentine, Heart

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• Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.

  Alice Hoffman

  Love Is, Sky, Blue

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.88, Penguin

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• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Letting Go, Song, People

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• But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Grief, Long, Feels

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• 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.

  Cassandra Clare

  Giving Up, Love You, Long

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.1108, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, most love songs are not cheesy and corny. Most love songs are complaints, I think. Or about unrequited love, coming at it from some oblique angle. Only the ones that say "I love you" over and over are the cheesy, corny ones that people complain about

  Stephin Merritt

  Song, Love You, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Sam Smith

  Song, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My album focuses on unrequited love quite a lot because I don't think it's spoken about enough in music. I've been through it myself and I found it hard to find songs that were about that, so I've definitely tried to make that a part of my album.

  Sam Smith

  Song, Thinking, Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Falling In Love, Hurt, Able

  Elizabeth Chandler (2010). “Don't Tell”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• When I'm lonely, frustrated or hurt it usually comes from a male person and from unrequited love. I often carry that pain around with me and my ribs actually start to ache. That's when I sit down and write.

  Pamela Anderson

  Lonely, Hurt, Pain

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• Canada has little pictures of us in its bedroom, right? Canada spends all of its time thinking about the United States, obsessing over the United States. It's unrequited love between Canada and the United States.

  Tucker Carlson

  Love Is, Thinking, United States

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.

  Walter Moers

  Love, Wall, Book

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

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Fate, Almonds, Scent

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Living to Tell the Tale”, p.455, Penguin UK

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