Unrequited Devotion Quotes

We love even when our love is not requited.

People who can't kiss had everything given to them.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

I am very much in love with no one in particular.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

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

When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.

I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.

I thought I was loved.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

You can always write a song about people who are in love, but they're in love, so they're happy; they don't need you. But the people that I try to worry about are the ones who don't have anyone to give chocolate to, and the girl who doesn't have flowers coming to her.

I've got tooth marks on my heart.

There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

But oh, to him I loved Who loved me not at all,I owe the little open gate That led thru heaven's wall.

I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.

It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

There's people out there that are like, 'Oh my God, I want to have your kid. I want to marry you.' People that I've never even met. That's sweet. It's funny.

I have had young fascinations but never love.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Hardly anyone liked R.E.M. who didn't like them way too much, so part of being an R.E.M. fan meant getting wildly overinvested and then feeling vaguely disappointed by whatever they did next.

I write a lot of songs about being in love, how beautiful women are but I've definitely experienced that other side of love where you're in a situation where you love a girl so much but you just know for a fact that she doesn't love you the same. "Grenade" is the extreme way of saying "I'd do anything for you and why can't I feel you would do the same for me?