Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

We can't be friends Cause I'm still in love with you.

I realized I love him just as much or more than I did four years ago. That I'm never live with him" She raised her head to look at her sisters with haunted eyes. "And I don't know if I can live without him.

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.

still loved but deprived of grace

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it

Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.

You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.

Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.