Abraham Cowley
“A mighty pain to love it is, And ‘t is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain. It is to love, but love in vain.”
Sarah Dessen
“An unrequited love is so much better than a real one ... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending.”
Sylvia Plath
“When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.”
Federico García Lorca
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
Gregory David Roberts
“Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.”
Allie Condie
"We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know."
Ranata Suzuki
“He was both everything I could ever want…And nothing I could ever have…”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
“I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year.”
Faith Herndon
“I am sleeping with unreciprocated love, while the arms of hope wrap around me.”
Edgar Allan Poe
"And all I loved, I loved alone."
"You wanted smooth sailing and I've always been a tsunami."
James Patterson
"Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?"
"Sometimes I wish you knew how I felt, but even if you knew...how could I make you care?"
Tennessee Williams
“Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.”
Pierrot le fou
“Why do you look so sad?” “Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.”
Shannon L. Alder
“Never fall in love with someone that won’t fight for you because when the real battles begin they won’t pull your heart to safety, but they will their own.”
Sarah Cross
“Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back ... then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.”
Maya Angelou
“Never make someone a priority, when all you are to them is an option.”
Anjum Choudhary
"Of all the painful ways to die, the worst is (italics) falling in love with someone who'd never love you back."
JmStorm
"Some things, and some people, are written in your soul with permanent ink"
Sanober Khan
“The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone when you’ve made them your eternity.”
Kiran Joshi
“The biggest curse in life is not losing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.”
"I was the one who loved you even though you gave me a thousand reasons not to."
"Sometimes two hearts just can't dance to the same beat."
John Green
"You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot."
"Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport."
Cassandra Clare
“Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.”
"I don't know what's more tragic that I keep looking for you wherever I go Or that you're never there"
Rashida Rowe
“The worst feeling is falling for someone and knowing that they won’t be there to catch you.”
"What happens when he's your Prince Charming but you're not his Cinderella?"
A relationship might break your heart once, but unrequited love will break your heart every day. What feels most unfair about loving someone that does not love you back is that you could be going through hell and the other person won’t even be aware of it.
The intensity of one-sided love can only be understood by a heart that yearns for what it cannot have. Others might say, “Why can’t you just get over it? You were even together.” Only someone in love with a person that doesn’t want them back will understand why it is the most herculean task.
Your feelings are valid and your pain is real. Let these quotes about unrequited love put what you are feeling into words.
