Aimee Carter 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.

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

I experienced unrequited love early.

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.

Great loves too must be endured.

Love hurts more than hate.

Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

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

Romantic love is painful.

Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.

I write a lot of songs about being in love, how beautiful women are but I've definitely experienced that other side of love where you're in a situation where you love a girl so much but you just know for a fact that she doesn't love you the same. "Grenade" is the extreme way of saying "I'd do anything for you and why can't I feel you would do the same for me?

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

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

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.

I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get.

What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.

There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

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

I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented. “Love does not make you a fool.” “He didn’t love me back.” “That does not make you a fool, either.” “Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?” “Sometimes never.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.

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.

What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me?

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.