Georges Courteline Quotes

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

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.

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 walk out of the room, lurching under the weight of the lesson I've learned less than one hour into wifehood: How quickly the sweetest love turns rancid when it isn't returned. When the one you love loves someone else.

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.

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.

There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.

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

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

I wasn't in any super duper serious relationships growing up, but yeah, I know what that heartbreak feels like.

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?

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

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

When the one you love is in love with someone else, don't you know it's torture, I mean it's living hell.

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

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

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

But oh, to him I loved Who loved me not at all,I owe the little open gate That led thru heaven's wall.

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.)

Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

I think there's nothing more painful for anyone than unrequited love. If you've ever had that kind of physical access to someone and then, all of a sudden, that is denied, and yet you're still in love with that person, it's very, very, very painful to be around that person in a certain way.