Lisa Jewell Quotes

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.

He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse still, in defiance of their own best interests and to the destruction of your peace, they loved another. What would half the world's poets and novelists do without this universal tragicomedy?

It is very hard to be in love with someone who no longer loves you, but it is far worse to be loved by someone with whom you are no longer in love.

It hurts being the one who loves more

People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other

He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

I think most people have experienced that at some point: being on one end or the other of a super-unbalanced relationship.

You can't love someone unless they love you back.

I love you enough for the both of us. And there must be something about me worth loving. If you would just try.

Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

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.

He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the creature but the creator of his own misery; and if a lover is unable to control his passion, he at least knows that he is himself to blame for his sufferings. But he who is loved without reciprocating that love is lost beyond redemption, for it is not in his power to set a limit to that other's passion, to keep it within bounds, and the strongest will is reduced to impotence in the face of another's desire.

She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!

Perhaps a great love is never returned.

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love that’s not worth it.” We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth.

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

Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.

I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

I'm fortunate in that I don't think I've ever fallen in love with somebody who hasn't fallen in love with me. I actually think it's quite rare that that happens, in a true way.