Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth McCracken

Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness.

Charles M. Schulz

There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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.

Alexander Pushkin

Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

Daniel Radcliffe

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

Andrei Tarkovsky

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

Alice Hoffman

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

Allison Pearson

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

Lorenz Hart

Unrequited love's a bore.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

George Sand

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

Frank Ocean

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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.

Federico Garcia Lorca

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Cassandra Clare

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.

Louisa May Alcott

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

Maggie Stiefvater

Unrequited love," I'd say. He'd look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, "what about it?" and I'd reply, "it's not your color." Pithy. Just to show him that I'd noticed. Or maybe I'd show myself to her and say, "Guess I'm not the only one who uses humans around here." And then I'd summon some of Owain's hounds to chew off the bottom bits of her legs. Then she wouldn't fit just right into his arms. She'd be too short. It'd be like hugging a midget. Nuala- pg. 75

Matt Groening

With 'Futurama,' I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our original plan was never to have Fry and Leela get together, we finally just said, 'You can only string the fans along so far.'

Julia Quinn

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

Lucinda Williams

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

J. Michael Straczynski

All love is unrequited. All of it.

Tablo

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

Sylvia Plath

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

Tucker Carlson

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.

Wayne Dyer

Stop giving energy to the things you don't want.

Neil LaBute

Unrequited love is always a great thing.

Walt Whitman

The female that loves unrequited sleeps, And the male that loves unrequited sleeps, The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps, And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.

Scott Turow

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

Tasha Alexander

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

Susan Sontag

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.