Unreturned Affection Quotes

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

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

Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

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.

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

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

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.)

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

Perhaps a great love is never returned.

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

Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.

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.

It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?

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

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

I think there's nothing more painful for anyone than unrequited love. If you've ever had that kind of physical access to someone and then, all of a sudden, that is denied, and yet you're still in love with that person, it's very, very, very painful to be around that person in a certain way.

If I know the guy is not interested, I don't fall in love. This is my safety.

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.

It's probably the worst feeling in the world, when you're deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she's not feeling you the same way, and you don't know why.

I'm not gone remix a record I don't got no love for.

I'm pretty sure I don't have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They're all either about, like, 'I hate you,' or 'You make me hate me.'