It always seems like your first love is one that will change your life forever. Whether it is the yearning and longing that has yet to be returned, or the lack of acknowledge from the other person, here is look at the best quotes about unreturned love to keep you inspired.
“As long as you’re neurotic and crazy, he’s great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.”
“Ask me why I keep on loving you when it’s clear that you don’t feel the same way for me. The problem is that as much as I can’t force you to love me, I can’t force myself to stop loving you.”
“I hate the day, because it lendeth light to see all things, but not my love to see.”
“I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.”
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
“I realized that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.”
“I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.”
“It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man”
“It’s delicious to have people adore you, but it’s exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don’t match theirs.”
“Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
“Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn’t love you.”
“Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace.”
“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.”
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
“She had the look in her eye when you kick and kick at the door and it doesn’t open, when you write a boy letters and letters and he never loves you, not ’til the day he dies. Not even then.”
“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.”
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
“The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”
“There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one’s sentiments.”
“There’s nothing quite so humbling as thinking you’re completely over someone, then realizing you’re not even close.”
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have — to want and want — how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
“Too many of us are hung up on what we don’t have, can’t have, or won’t ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy — if not less of it — doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
“Unrequited love does not die; it’s only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.”
“Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.”
“Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.”
“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.”
“When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.”
“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”
“You have never loved me as I love you — never —never! Yours is not a passionate heart — your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite — not a woman!”
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”
Building a relationship up in your mind that has yet to happen can leave you with devastating consequences.
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