Marcel Proust Quotes

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

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

We love even when our love is not requited.

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.

We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

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.

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

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

You can always write a song about people who are in love, but they're in love, so they're happy; they don't need you. But the people that I try to worry about are the ones who don't have anyone to give chocolate to, and the girl who doesn't have flowers coming to her.

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

Park Sion in 'Good Doctor' had a heart-aching love, but I don't want such a thing. Love just should be a happiness.

I didn't fall in love with boys - but a few men have been in love with 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.

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.

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

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

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

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

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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.

Unrequited love is always a great thing.