Unanswered Yearning Quotes

I'm a ladies' man who can never make love. I'm resigned to that.

I really never stopped thinking about Ellen, because I just haven't felt that kind of energy with anyone in my life.

I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me.

I've definitely been obsessed with a couple of girls. They didn't work out.

I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'

What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience.

I've had so many crushes on gay boys.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Only the mad girls chase me, I think.

Men say, 'I've loved you since I was 7 years old,' and I say, 'Well, you never contacted me.' And very often women say, 'Do youuuuuu know what I have?' and I want to say, 'Yessssssss, I do.' Because inevitably the answer is, 'An original Shirley Temple doll.'

In my twenties, I wrote a lot of romantic stories in which I always lost the girl.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.