Elinore Denniston Quotes

There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.

I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.

I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you. I would have tried in vain, every day, to not think about you, and what could have been. What should have been. I would have tried to convince myself that there's no such thing as true love, except for the love you yourself make work, even though I know better....The bottom line is I never had any business marrying anyone who wasn't you.

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

I didn't know how to stop wanting him. It wasn't that I had any hope—I knew I'd never see him again. But that didn't stop me from comparing every other man to Hardy and finding them all lacking. I had exhausted myself loving him.

Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

In another life, I would be your girl, we keep all our promises, the us against the world, In another life, I would make you stay, So I don't have to say you were the one that got away the one that got away

Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without... He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one who's got enough of me to break my heart. He's the song in the car I keep singing; don't know why I do.

She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else.

And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

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

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

I wanted him to love me, and I'm quite sure that he didn't.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

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.

To me, TV relationships work at their best when there is a deep longing and feelings and interest and sexual attraction that is unrequitable.

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.

I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They send me a hero I can't help ... just the sort of person I can't help falling in love with." ... As I sailed into the lake I realized the Fates really were cruel. They sent Calypso someone she couldn't help but love. But it worked both ways. For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if.

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.