Unequal Love Quotes

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.

I loved her more than she loved me, that was the problem. A basic imbalance. Relationships like that never last, however hard you try. And now she's pregnant and in love with a man who'll never love her the way she loves him. It's a series of vicious circles, and the only way to stop it is to find someone who loves you the same. No power struggle. No insecurities. Just friendship. Because you can never be friends with someone if you love them too much.

Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.

People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other

It hurts being the one who loves more

Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time

My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.

My brother wasn't loved by my mother in the same way that I was.

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

One beach-colored. One brown. One Loved. One Loved a Little Less.

Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.

What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.

I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get.

Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.

You can't love someone unless you are in an equal position with them. A lot of women have to cling to men out of fear or insecurity, and that's not love - basically that's why women hate men.

She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.

I think he loved us equally, but differently.

I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.