100 Best Unrequited Love Quotes And Sayings That Are Touchy

Unrequited Love Quotes

  • “Maybe one day you’ll understand that hearts don’t intend to break other hearts.” —Marisa Donnelly
  • “Unrequited love differs from mutual love, just like delusion differs from the truth.” —George Sand
  • “Unrequited love is like hitting your head against a wall that isn’t there.” —Shannon Wheeler
  • “You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.” —Tablo
  • “The love that last the longest is the love that is never returned.” —William Somerset Maugham
  • “The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.” —Joyce Carol Oates
  • “The worst feeling is falling for someone and knowing that they won’t be there to catch you.”
  • “Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he’s turned it into hate.” —Lauren DeStefano
  • “Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.” —James Matthew Barrie
  • “One of the greatest pain and agony is being in one sided love with someone.” —Anurag Prakash Ray

Famous Quotes About Unrequited Love

  • “The biggest curse in life is not losing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.” —Kiran Joshi
  • “Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.” —Alan Watts
  • “Sometimes life sends us people who don’t love us enough, to remind us of what we’re worthy of.” —Mandy Hale
  • “I came hoping to see those eyes, but instead I return with my heart, leaving behind only flowers.” —Kim Dong Hwa
  • “I knew I was in love with you. Was I an idiot for thinking you were in love with me too?”
  • “No one understands why you do certain things even when you know you’re never going to get anything back.” —Shahul Hussain
  • “When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.” —Sylvia Plath
  • “I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year.” —Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • “You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.” —John Green
  • “Sometimes the best feeling is not falling in love, it’s falling out of love with someone who never really loved you.” —Mitch Cuent
  • “If you don’t receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.” —Robert Goolrick
  • “When you truly love someone, you don’t hurt or cause them pain, that’s how I painfully realized you didn’t love me.” —Michael Hayssus
  • “The Hardest thing about being broken, isn’t the Love you don’t receive, it’s the Love you long to give that nobody wants.” —Dinesh Kumar Biran
  • “I wish I could stop loving you so that I could free myself of the pain of you not being able to love me back.” —Cian Kim
  • “When you are in a relationship with someone and all the heavy lifting is put on you then there is no way that person loves you.” —Gichele Cocrelle
  • “You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.” —Johnny Depp
  • “His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her… He’s probably forgotten that I’m here, beside him.” —Ai Yazawa
  • “I wish I had the guts to walk away from what we had. But I can’t because I know you won’t come after me, and that’s what hurts the most.” —Spencer Shirks
  • “My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.” —Meredith T. Taylor
  • “An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.” —Harold Lokes
  • “I used to care so much. I used to fight for this. I tried my hardest to hold on and keep you but you didn’t want this as much as I did. I didn’t lose you. Let’s be honest, you lost me.” —Hemant smarty

Touchy Unrequited Love Quotes and Sayings

  • “Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”
  • “The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”
  • “Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.”
  • “Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace.”
  • “The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
  • “There’s nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one’s sentiments.”
  • “I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year.”
  • “The worst feeling is falling for someone and knowing that they wont be there to catch you.” – Rashida Rowe
  • “Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone if the one that you love doesn’t love you.”
  • “Unrequited love does not die; it’s only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.”

Deep Quotes On Unrequited Love

  • “One of the greatest pain and agony is being in one sided love with someone.”
  • “Unrequited love differs from mutual love, just like delusion differs from the truth.” – George Sand
  • “You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.” – Tablo
  • “Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he’s turned it into hate.” – Lauren DeStefano
  • “The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.”
  • “The Hardest thing about being broken, isn’t the Love you don’t receive, it’s the Love you long to give that nobody wants.”
  • “When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.”- Sylvia Plath
  • “I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • “You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.” – John Green
  • “My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.” – Meredith T. Taylor

Unrequited Love Quotes to Express Love Thoughts

  • “Even though you already broke my heart into pieces, I still love you with all the little pieces you scattered.”
  • “When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.” —Miranda Kenneally
  • “There’s nothing quite so humbling as thinking you’re completely over someone, then realizing you’re not even close.” —Brian Strause, Maybe a Miracle
  • “Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.” —Cesare Pavese
  • “Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.” —Gustave Flaubert
  • “Because by immortalizing the pain of my unrequited love I am letting you go. This is me moving on the only way I know how.” —Theresa Mariz
  • “An unrequited love is not something you will want, but sometimes we just could not help but love a person who does not love us in return.”
  • “I realized that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.” —Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
  • “I wish I had the guts to walk away from what we had. But I can’t because I know you won’t come after me, and that’s what hurts the most.” —Spencer Shirks
  • “Isn’t that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe.” —Kate Bolick, Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own
  • “It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.” —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange

Sad Unrequited Love Quotes for Lover

  • “People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.” —Daniel Radcliffe
  • “Maybe one day you’ll understand that hearts don’t intend to break other hearts.” —Marisa Donnelly
  • “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
  • “The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.” —Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
  • “I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year.” —Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” —Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook
  • “You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.” —John Green
  • “Perhaps unrequited love was a spectre in the house, a presence that brushed at the edge of senses, a heat in the dark, a shadow under the sun.” —Sherry Thomas
  • “My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.” —Meredith T. Taylor
  • “I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it’s perfect… As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.” —Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
  • “Unrequited love does not die; it’s only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.” —Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischi

Romeo And Juliet Unrequited Love Quotes

  • Benvolio: “By giving liberty into thine eyes, examine other beauties.”
  • Romeo: “This love I feel, I feel no love in this.”
  • Romeo: ” Out of her favour, where I am in love.”
  • Romeo: “Well, in that hit you miss, she’ll not be hit with Cupid’s arrow.”
  • Benvolio: “Come, he hath hid himself among these trees to be consorted (associate with) with the humorous night, blind is his love, and best befits the dark.”
  • Romeo: “That late thou gavest me, for Mercutio’s soul is but a little way above our heads, staying for thine to keep him company, either thou (tybalt) or I, or both, must go with him.”