Christine McVie Quotes

All love is unrequited. All of it.

We love even when our love is not requited.

The most powerful love songs always turn on the discrepancy between the act of declaring love and the knowledge that the ostensible addressee is no longer there, was never there, and could never be there.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.

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

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

People ask about love. Real love. I was never in love; the people around me didn't love me. They were just along for the ride.

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

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Unrequited love is always a great thing.

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

There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

You can't be in love with a Google search.

I'm one of the few people I've ever met who is blessed enough to be able to love the one who got away.

When I think of love, I think of pain and not joy. I know that is not the way it's supposed to be but it has been that way for me.

I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.