16 Quotes About The Beautifully Painful Parts Of Unrequited Love

16 quotes

Because on the other side of rejection, on the other side of fear and questioning should I say something is something worthwhile.

“Because on the other side of rejection, on the other side of that moment you question if you should say something, there comes bravery from within that allows you to continue with words you might regret. But under the surface is hope. Under the surface you wonder, can they reciprocate these intense…”

— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Love, Rejection, Bravery, Feelings, Unrequited Love

“it is a tuesday when i love someone who doesn’t love me. no, it’s not the first time, but it’s a sad time. oh, it’s always a sad time but my heart doesn’t listen, doesn’t understand, soars like a child in a rocket ship, doesn’t believe in gravity. doesn’t believe in learning a lesson. wants to give…”

— Yena Sharma Purmasir, fly-underground.tumblr.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, Poetry, Heartbreak

“Here is the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love with someone else. I don’t know how to turn that into poetry.”

— Clementine Von Radics, clementinevonradics.tumblr.com

Tagged: Spilled Ink, Poetry, Love, Heartbreak, Break Up

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Lust, Desire, Wanting Someone You Can't Have

“You can’t love someone into loving you.”

— reminisceandremember, reminisceandremember.tumblr.com

Tagged: Letting Go, Love, Unrequited Love

“Hell is loving you in my sleep and waking up alone.”

— Tina Tran, amazon.com

Tagged: Hell, Missing You, Unrequited Love

“I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, Heartbreak, Relationships Ending

“Unrequited love is the only emotion that allows sane people to taste the ‘life sentence’ of someone with bipolar disorder. The longer they hang onto a lost cause the more unstable they look to everyone else. They contradict their own belief systems and statements, by circling the drain with two comp…”

— Shannon Alder, facebook.com

Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Hate

“Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Books, romance

“I made myself from all the love you no longer wanted.”

— Iain S. Thomas, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Unrequited Love

“You are enough. You’ve ALWAYS been more than enough, but to the wrong people you’ll always be inadequate.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Good Enough, Enough, Self love, Self Worth, Unrequited Love

“You can’t be friends with someone who’s in love with you if you don’t love that person back the same way.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

Tagged: Friendship, Love, Unrequited Love

“We grow up thinking the only love that counts as true love is the kind that lasts forever or is fully realized. When you have a broken heart the first thing someone will ask is how long were you together? As if pain can be determined by how long you were with someone. Or if you were with them at all…”

— Taylor Swift, teenvogue.com

Tagged: Dating Advice, Relationship Advice, Taylor Swift Advice

“I couldn’t just be your friend. And at first I thought that was my flaw. But it was a flaw in you, for asking that of me. I’ll probably always love you. And when and if our paths cross again I know, I’ll be breaking on the inside. I'll break for all we were, all we weren’t, and all you’ve probably f…”

— Kirsten Corley, puckermob.com

Tagged: Just Friends, Relationships Ending, Letting Go, friendzone

“You wanna know what the truth is? I still love you and I probably will love you for a very long time. But I can't just be your buddy, because as much as i enjoy the concept of being "just friends" in reality it's a bizarre form of torture and i'm just not willing to participate in it. so right now w…”

— Joey, amazon.com

Tagged: Just Friends, Heartbreak, Love, Letting Go, goodbye

“We looked at each other a little too long to be just friends.”

— Unknown, facebook.com

Tagged: Just Friends, Love, Relationships