Best Unrequited Sayings

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Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it? — James Patterson
I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and… — Jodi Picoult
I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love - plain desperate aboveboard… — Elizabeth McCracken
My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather… — Andrei Tarkovsky
She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years. — Julia Quinn
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… — Elizabeth Chandler
Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run. — Adolfo Bioy Casares
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate. — Margaret Mitchell
I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he… — Cassandra Clare
Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down. — Sam Savage
You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot. — John Green
The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts. — Allison Pearson
Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,… — William Shakespeare
His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her... He's probably forgotten that… — Ai Yazawa
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit… — Ben Elton
For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself… — Eric Weiner
It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad… — Joan Bauer
Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs. — Alice Hoffman
First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge.It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it can never be… — Stephen Fry
He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced. — Barbara Pym
I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands. — Francesca Lia Block
There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich. — Charles M. Schulz
Unrequited love," I'd say. He'd look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, "what about it?" and I'd reply, "it's not… — Maggie Stiefvater

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