Quotes about Unrequited

It's thrilling to fight for a love that's entirely unrequited. It might not be much fun. It might leave profound and lasting scars. But it's interesting—especially for a person who, for years now, has been afraid of taking risks and who has begun to be terrified by the possibility that things might change without her being able to control them. I'm not going to repress my feelings any longer. This challenge is my salvation.

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you

We love even when our love is not requited.

He is, after all, the author, eternal possessor, initiator, and giver of love. He cannot be destroyed or made less by unrequited love, but to disassociate Him from the pain and grief associated with love is to carve a convenient idol out of wood or stone bearing no resemblance to the God of the Bible. Within those pages, we find a God who cannot be changed by man but can be affected by man. His immutability does not deplete or delete His affections.

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

He loved her, and he would love her until the day he was too old for loving--but he could not have her. So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

Love was never a mistake, even when it wasn't returned.