Unrequited Quotes - Page 3

• My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

  Andrew Marvell

  Love, Despair, Strange

  'The Definition of Love' (1681)

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• Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.

  Sloane Crosley

  Crush, Ex Boyfriend, Dancing

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• Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained

  Dan Brown

  Church, Painful, Painful Love

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.397, Knopf

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• 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.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Hate, Integrity, Unrequited Love

  "Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays".

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• Molly works because, while Watson is ‘the audience’, Molly is every woman of a certain age sitting at home on the settee fantasizing about running their hands through Benedict Cumberbatch's hair. ...Also, I think most people have experienced the agony and the ignominy of unrequited love. I’ve never thought Molly was an idiot. She just really, really loves him.

  Louise Brealey

  Running, Home, Unrequited Love

  "Louise Brealey: 'I don't think Molly is really Sherlock's type'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2012.

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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, Unrequited Love

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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, Unrequited Love, Feelings

  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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• 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, Unrequited Love, Men

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

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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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• 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.

  Kristan Higgins

  Broken Heart, Moving, Unrequited Love

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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, Unrequited Love, Passion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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, Unrequited Love, Long

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• Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Communication, Media

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• ...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

  Michael Connelly

  Character, Desire, Glimpse

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• Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.

  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  Running, Unrequited Love, Long

  Adolfo Bioy Casares (1990). “Asleep in the Sun”, Plume Books

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• Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down.

  Sam Savage

  Unrequited Love, Love Is

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

  Allison Pearson

  Unrequited Love, Love Is, Lasts

  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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• 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, Unrequited Love, Sleep

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

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• His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her... He's probably forgotten that I'm here, beside him

  Ai Yazawa

  Hands, Feet, Want

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• Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.

  Ben Elton

  Lying, Jealous, Unrequited Love

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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, Unrequited Love

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

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• Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks

  Meg Cabot

  Real, Book, Unrequited Love

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Mediator #5: Haunted”, p.219, Zondervan

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• I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Dating, Saying Thank You

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather like unrequited love, like a symptom of the hopelessness of trying to grasp what is boundless, or unite what cannot be joined; a reminder of how finite, how curtailed, our experience on earth must be

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Unrequited Love, Irritation, Attachment

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• Heart lesson #4: the unrequited heart. You can't make anyone love you back.

  Ibi Kaslik

  Love You, Heart, Lessons

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