Unreciprocated Love Quotes

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

We love even when our love is not requited.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Your disrespect for me is apparent. You never respected me when I think about it and you never liked me. But I’m the parent and you’re the child and it is not your job to love me the way I love you. My love for you is unconditional and no matter what you decide in your life I will love you. Doesn’t mean I have to like it, but I will always love you. Love, Dad

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

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.

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.

In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

People ask about love. Real love. I was never in love; the people around me didn't love me. They were just along for the ride.

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.)

I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

When I get the strength to leave, you always tell me that you need me. And I'm weak cause I believe you and I'm mad because I love you. So I stop and think that maybe you could learn to appreciate me, and it all remains the same that you ain't never gonna change.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and straight forward. Having died to self interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us Being; without cause give it back again. Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion. Religion seeks grace and favor, but those who gamble these away are God's favorites, for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the door of gain and loss.

We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love.

Perhaps a great love is never returned.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

For some reason, young girls, they don't want the guy that's just there.

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

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.

My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard.