“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. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”— Carol Rifka Brunt, amazon.com
“Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.”— Eric Berne, amazon.com
“Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bitter-sweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt to take…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“I want to take her into my arms and hold her tight. But at the same time, I know that is the exact opposite of what she wants. She wants to be free, and all I want is to hold her tight against me.”— Beth Revis, amazon.com
“She loved you, you know. You were the best friend she’s ever had.”— Jeff Stockwell, David Paterson, Bill Burke, Latham Gaines, imdb.com
“I understand I can’t have you. But I want to know you’re in the world with me.”— Jennifer Echols, amazon.com
“You will go on and meet someone else and I’ll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.”— Marian Keyes, amazon.com
“A person doesn’t know true hurt and suffering until they’ve felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.”— Rose Gordon, amazon.com
“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back.”— Rick Riordan, amazon.com
“The saddest truth is realising you have fallen madly in love with what can never be.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.com
“I tried to kiss away the emptiness screaming ‘I love you’ into the spaces as if I could fill him, us. He was my first experience with transience— searching for a residence in the impermanent.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“The saddest truth is realising you have fallen madly in love with what can never be.”— Michael Faudet, amazon.com
“Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically—to those who hardly think about us in return.”— T.H. White, amazon.com
“The cure for unrequited love is, in structure, therefore very simple. We must get to know them better. The more we discovered of them, the less they would ever look like the solution to all our problems.”— The School of Life, youtube.com
“For intense period of our lives, we suffer the agony of unrequited love. Our sorrow is accompanied by a certainty that if only the elusive being would return our smiles, come for dinner or marry us, we would know bliss.”— The School of Life, youtube.com