16 Quotes That Describe The Agony Of Being In Love With Someone Who Loves Someone Else

16 quotes

Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have.

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I w…”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, Missed Connections, The One, Love, romance

“The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him.”

— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, The One, Love, Missed Connections

“Snape's patronus was a doe. The same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.”

— Harry Potter, amazon.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, The One, Love, Missed Connections, Young Love

“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them.”

— Carol Rifka Brunt, amazon.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, The One, Love, Missed Connections, Destiny

“I had to get over him. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over him, lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. Life would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't want to kee…”

— Kristan Higgins, amazon.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, The One, Love, Missed Connections, Get Over Him

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

— Julia Quinn, amazon.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, Desperate

“I feel... sad. Like I've lost something I never quite had.”

— Christine Seifert, amazon.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, Loss, Sadness

“I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.”

— Francesca Lia Block, amazon.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love

“I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else.”

— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, The One, Love, Missed Connections

“Even now I'll see her looking at him, her eyes milky yet full of longing, and all he ever gives her is a gentle, absent nod.”

— Jane Avrich, amazon.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, The One, Love, Longing

“The side-chick is not just the second option; she’s also a human being.”

— Kadia Blagrove, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, The One, Love, human

“I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped on the flags! In every cloud, in every tree – filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women – my own features mock me with a resemblance.…”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, The One, Love, Longing, Everywhere

“He keeps me in his pocket for a rainy day; he swears I'm not an object as he yo-yo's me away. A friend is what we'll call it, but my friend, he does not know, each time it rains I love him— so to his pocket, I must go. He thinks he's being clever, but I am not a fool; his love ain't worth a penny, s…”

— Coco J. Ginger, courtingmadness.wordpress.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, The One, Love, Longing, Fool

“i knew his heart was yours but i wanted to become an alchemist to make gold of the pieces i received because all i ever felt was the dark side of his leaded heart.”

— K.Y. Robinson, wordporn.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, The One, Love, Longing, gold

“I was deluded, and I knew it... For the truth of it was: Pippa and I saw each other maybe twice a year; we e-mailed and texted, though with no great regularity; when she was in town we loaned each other books and went to the movies; we were friends; nothing more. My hopes for a relationship with her…”

— Donna Tartt, amazon.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, Friends, Crush, Love, romance

“Not feel anything, Jennie? Are you fucking kidding me? I walk around here every day and I ache every fucking minute I’m with you. I’m so twisted up with loving you and hating you, I can’t breathe. I can’t keep my hands off you, but I can’t let myself kiss you because I might lose myself in you. I ca…”

— Lori Ryan, amazon.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, romance, Longing, Desire