Unrequited Quotes

• All love is unrequited. All of it.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Boy
  • Social
  • Novel

• For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.

  

  Kathleen McGowan
  • True
  • Measure
  • Finding

• I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • World
  • Power
  • Invicible

• Unrequited love is just another addiction.

  

  Larry Smith
  • Love
  • Addiction
  • Unrequited

• I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Love
  • Sad
  • Glorious

• 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
  • Fall
  • Hurt
  • Persons

• I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

  

  Wilbur Smith
  • Loneliness
  • Unrequited
  • Poignant

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

  

  Adolfo Bioy Casares
  • Long
  • Love
  • Taught

• I've been in love since I was 14; it's always focused on someone or something and it's always unrequited. It's led to a lot of cheesy lines, but it's also the way I am. I want to be romantic, and songs are a good way to do that.

  

  Tobias Jesso Jr.
  • Song
  • Focused
  • Cheesy

• In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

  

  Mignon McLaughlin
  • Marriage
  • inspirational
  • Equality

• Everyone has their own experiences with song. It means one thing to me and it means something entirely different to somebody else. I have a song called 'Apple Cherry' which is a song about unrequited love and to this couple in London, they fell in love to this song. The girl in the relationship called me and said she wanted to propose to her girlfriend could you sing 'Apple Cherry' while I do it? I was like 'Really? That's not a love song about getting together'.

  

  NAO
  • Different
  • Couple
  • Propose

• There were certain things that I watched, and I screened a series of period films as well, not because I wanted to copy those, because I wanted to be different. “Far from the Madding Crowd” was one I looked to because I thought it looked so good. “Doctor Zhivago.” Unrequited love is always a great thing. “Tess” was something I looked at, I thought Polanski got the period right.

  

  Neil LaBute
  • Love
  • Unrequited

• Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

  

  Merle Shain
  • Love
  • Emptiness
  • Soulmate