Emmanuelle Beart Quotes

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.

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?

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.

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.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

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 have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.

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

In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it.

When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was 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.

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.

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

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

I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

Unrequited love is always a great thing.

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

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

It's a shame that it didn't work out with Mick. I was hopelessly in love with him.

When I hear heartbreak songs, I always feel like, 'O.K. that's exactly how I feel... I'm not the only person who fell in love like a stupid person.'

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

Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?