Unrequited Desire Quotes

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

Can't Hardly Wait was a movie everyone wanted. I wanted the lead girl sooo badly, I think it was Lauren Ambrose. I wanted it so badly, I kept auditioning. I didn't get it, but I think everyone that auditioned - because everyone went out for it - got some screen time in it, like me.

I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life.

We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears. It is replaced by a look of hunger and desolation.

I'm kind of unlucky in love and I have, for some reason, always fallen for the straight guy.

I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

Prince and I were just friends. I think he would have been happy to have had a relationship.

Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

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.

I've never been in love. I know, it's weird.

Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

I didn't fall in love with boys - but a few men have been in love with me.

It's a shame that it didn't work out with Mick. I was hopelessly in love with him.

What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me?

I can't forget the scene in 'My Night at Maud's' when the very pious engineer in the business suit decides to sit on Maud's bed while she is lying under the covers with only a T-shirt on, determined to seduce him.

When the one you love is in love with someone else, don't you know it's torture, I mean it's living hell.

He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse still, in defiance of their own best interests and to the destruction of your peace, they loved another. What would half the world's poets and novelists do without this universal tragicomedy?

The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality. Moreover, the wandering around Venice in pursuit of Tadzio isn't a prelude to some sexual contact for which Aschenbach is yearning.