“ Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be. ”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald A nice quiet place- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Loving someone you can’t be with…it’s a terrible, terrible burden. ”
- Mary Margaret Once Upon a Time- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him. ”
- Alexander Pushkin- Copy
- 2.3K
“ It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. ”
- Gabriel García Márquez- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. 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. Neither could James. He understood. In such situations, you do one of two things – you either walk away and deny yourself, or you do sneaky things to get what you need. You attend weddings, you go for walks. You say, yes. Yes, you’re my best friend, too. ”
- Elizabeth McCracken- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he’s turned it into hate. ”
- Lauren DeStefano- Copy
- 3.2K
“ So how does it happen, great love? Nobody knows…but what I can tell you is that it happens in the blink of an eye. One moment you’re enjoying your life, and the next you’re wondering how you ever lived without them. ”
- Hitch- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs. ”
- Alice Woffman- Copy
- 1K
“ Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn’t love you. ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
- 218
“ The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. ”
- Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey- Copy
- 925
“ With women who do not love us, as with the dear departed, the knowledge that there is no hope left does not prevent us from continuing to wait. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
- 895
“ She had the look in her eye when you kick and kick at the door and it doesn’t open, when you write a boy letters and letters and he never loves you, not ’til the day he dies. Not even then. ”
- Daniel Handler The Basic Eight- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Too many of us are hung up on what we don’t have, can’t have, or won’t ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do. ”
- Terry McMillan Disappearing Acts- Copy
- 171
“ The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love. ”
- Joyce Carol Oates Death Mother- Copy
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