Unrequited Love Quotes

Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.

Christina Westover

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

Tasha Alexander

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Thornton Wilder

When you're cold and unloving, he'll walk through a fire to earn your love, but the second you give your love to him, he'll drag you by your hair, and throw you into the fire. Never show your vulneralbility, instead embody the Seductress.

Euphoria Godsent

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

Beth Kephart

Girls spilled drinks down their dresses and flicked their hair. Wishing anyone, maybe even you, would notice them... You were someone to me.

Kate Chisman

I came hoping to see those eyes, but instead I return with my heart, leaving behind only flowers.

Kim Dong Hwa

As so many commitments demand your timeOr your shut-eye important be,Your attraction to me must in some way lack,Such a pity to spend time on thee.

Charlotte M. Liebel

Eternity has a way of letting us all grow up.

Shannon L. Alder

Love?' he asked himself, giving no sense of recognition for that word in the dictionary of his mind. It was the only battle he had lost in life, the only thing that had been snatched away from him, before he could even claim it.

Faraaz Kazi

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?

Shannon L. Alder

Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

William Shakespeare

It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air. I was saying something that was making her laugh, and I couldn't stop looking at her. It was a little bit chilly, and her cheeks were pink, and her dark hair was flowing around her face. All I wanted for the rest of my life was to keep making her laugh like that. Sometimes our arms brushed against each other as we walked, and it was like I could feel the touch for minutes after it happened.

Carolyn Parkhurst

I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else - someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.

Cassandra Clare

Out of her favour, where I am in love.

William Shakespeare

Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?Scorn and derision never come in tears:Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears.How can these things in me seem scorn to you,Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?

William Shakespeare

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

The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.

Cassandra Clare

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

Cassandra Clare

Reporters used to be blue-collar at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.

Howie Carr