Augusten Burroughs Quotes

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.

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.

I experienced unrequited love early.

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.

Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

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.

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.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

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

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

We love even when our love is not requited.

Unrequited love is always a great thing.

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.

You can't go on telling, 'I am in love.'

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

I can't make you love me, if you don't.

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.

He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.