Abbi Glines Quotes

Perhaps a great love is never returned.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Unrequited love is always a great thing.

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

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

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.)

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

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

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

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

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

I experienced unrequited love early.

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.

I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it.

I can't make you love me, if you don't.

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.

He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse still, in defiance of their own best interests and to the destruction of your peace, they loved another. What would half the world's poets and novelists do without this universal tragicomedy?

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.