Unreciprocated Efforts Quotes

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

The trouble with Northern liberals is that they want their arses kissed all the time … but I can’t spend all my time doing it.

People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.

I'm not in the business of holding people's hands after I've expressed to them my needs numerous times.

I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me.

I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.

You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.

Everybody's out to get something from somebody. 'Gold diggers' doesn't just mean money, it can mean time, it can mean feelings. It can mean anything when you're taking and not giving. When people don't know how to reciprocate.

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.