Unrequited Quotes

• Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stars, Memorable, Heart

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.52, Harvard University Press

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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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• Self-love seems so often unrequited.

  Anthony Powell

  Love, Confidence, Being Yourself

  'The Acceptance World' (1955) ch. 1

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

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Unrequited Love, People, Incredibles

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• Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love, Mother, Children

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• 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, Unrequited Love, Heartbreaking

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• Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Love Is

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.801, Simon and Schuster

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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, Unrequited Love, Punishment

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• It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

  Tasha Alexander

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, People

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• Unrequited love's a bore.

  Lorenz Hart

  Unrequited Love, Bores

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• Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love, Jace, Fray

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

  John Green

  Hipster, Unrequited Love, Way

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.30, Penguin

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• I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

  Barbara Pym

  Encouragement, Unrequited Love, Might

  Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.73, Penguin

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

  Scott Turow

  Unrequited Love, Together, Love And Death

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

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• All love is unrequited. All of it.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Unrequited Love, Love Is

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• Theres so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

  Lucinda Williams

  Writing, Unrequited Love

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• I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Song, Flower, Unrequited Love

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• I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Happy Love, World, Not Happy

  "Memories of My Melancholy Whores". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.theguardian.com. 2004.

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• If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

  Robert Goolrick

  Love, Loss, Ifs

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.209, Algonquin Books

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• I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Relationship, Summer, Heart

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.170, Everyman's Library

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• Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Hate, Anger, Heart

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.80, Hamilton Books

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• I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was boring and she was endlessly fascinating. 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.

  John Green

  Love, Dream, Lying

  "Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, 2005.

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• She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

  Julia Quinn

  Unrequited Love, Years, Glimpse

  Julia Quinn (2007). “The secret diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever”

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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, Unrequited Love

  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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• 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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