Unreciprocated Feelings Quotes

Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss

Just because someone tells you they love you, it doesn't mean they actually do.

I always identified with Frankenstein because as a kid, I never got the girl.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Love is never wasted, even if it is not reciprocated.

I didn't really like anyone in my high school - not like that, anyway. I had a lot of guy friends but no one that I had feelings for.

November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.

People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

I've definitely had the experience where I was pursuing someone for a long time that I just obviously did not connect with, so I was always, kind of altering myself for her, But then you realize it's just not worth it. What's the point?

I've been dumped hard. My heart has been broken and shattered, and I've also been on the other end of that too.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

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

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.)

Yes I got into things with girls who only liked me because of who I was. But I learnt my lesson quickly.

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.