Jane Hamilton Quotes

Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.

I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

It's probably the worst feeling in the world, when you're deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she's not feeling you the same way, and you don't know why.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

I wasn't in any super duper serious relationships growing up, but yeah, I know what that heartbreak feels like.

This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.

Unrequited love is always a great thing.

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

I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

Perhaps a great love is never returned.

It's not the loving that hurts this girl; it's the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload the words - "I love you" - on an innocent party who didn't ask for it, to reach across the dark space and touch him - it's like the world she knows could end if she dared speak these words, dared make such a move.

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.