Joel Sossa

16 Quotes About The Beautifully Painful Parts Of Unrequited Love

Because on the other side of rejection, on the other side of fear and questioning should I say something is something worthwhile.
Kirsten Corley
September 26, 2016
“Because on the other side of rejection, on the other side of that moment you question if you should say something, there comes bravery from within that allows you to continue with words you might regret. But under the surface is hope. Under the surface you wonder, can they reciprocate these intense feelings you have?”
— Kirsten Corley, Because I Can’t Make You Love Me If You Don’t
Tagged: Love, Rejection, Bravery, Feelings, Unrequited Love
“it is a tuesday when i love someone who doesn’t love me. no, it’s not the first time, but it’s a sad time. oh, it’s always a sad time but my heart doesn’t listen, doesn’t understand, soars like a child in a rocket ship, doesn’t believe in gravity. doesn’t believe in learning a lesson. wants to give until there is nothing left but glitter.”
— Yena Sharma Purmasir, four of thirty
Tagged: Unrequited Love, Poetry, Heartbreak
“Here is the truth: It is hard to be in love 
with someone who is in love with someone else. 
I don’t know how to turn that into poetry.”
— Clementine Von Radics, Untitled
Tagged: Spilled Ink, Poetry, Love, Heartbreak, Break Up, Unrequited Love, Pain
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Lust, Desire, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“You can’t love someone into loving you.”
— reminisceandremember, via Tumblr
Tagged: Letting Go, Love, Unrequited Love
“Hell is loving you in my sleep and waking up alone.”
— Tina Tran, Out of the Ruins
Tagged: Hell, Missing You, Unrequited Love
“I made myself from all the love you no longer wanted.”
— Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Unrequited Love
“You are enough. You’ve ALWAYS been more than enough, but to the wrong people you’ll always be inadequate.”
— Sade Andria Zabala, Open Letter To The Ones Who Are “Never Good Enough”
Tagged: Good Enough, Enough, Self love, Self Worth, Unrequited Love, Love Yourself, Never Good Enough, Not Good Enough, Perspective
“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
Tagged: Unrequited Love, Heartbreak, Relationships Ending
“I couldn’t just be your friend. And at first I thought that was my flaw. But it was a flaw in you, for asking that of me.

I’ll probably always love you. And when and if our paths cross again I know, I’ll be breaking on the inside. I'll break for all we were, all we weren’t, and all you’ve probably forgotten, that I can’t seem to.”
— Kirsten Corley, Because I Couldn't Just be Your Friend
Tagged: Just Friends, Relationships Ending, Letting Go, friendzone
“You wanna know what the truth is? I still love you and I probably will love you for a very long time. But I can't just be your buddy, because as much as i enjoy the concept of being "just friends" in reality it's a bizarre form of torture and i'm just not willing to participate in it. so right now what i wanna do is just move on and get over you and the only way for me to do that is to not be around you anymore.”
— Joey, Dawson's Creek Season 4 Episode 22
Tagged: Just Friends, Heartbreak, Love, Letting Go, goodbye
“Unrequited love is the only emotion that allows sane people to taste the ‘life sentence’ of someone with bipolar disorder. The longer they hang onto a lost cause the more unstable they look to everyone else. They contradict their own belief systems and statements, by circling the drain with two competing emotions—love and hate.”
— Shannon Alder, Fanpage
Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Hate
“Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks.”
— Meg Cabot, Haunted (The Mediator #5)
Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Books, romance
“You can’t be friends with someone who’s in love with you if you don’t love that person back the same way.”
— Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Unrequited Love
“We grow up thinking the only love that counts as true love is the kind that lasts forever or is fully realized. When you have a broken heart the first thing someone will ask is how long were you together? As if pain can be determined by how long you were with someone. Or if you were with them at all. I don't think that's how it works. I think unrequited love is just as valid as any other kind. It's just as crushing and just as thrilling. No matter what happens in this situation I want you to remember that what you are doing is selfish and beautiful and kind. You are loving someone purely because you love them, not because you think you'll ever have the feeling reciprocated. You are admiring something for it's beauty, without needing to own it. Feel good about being that kind of person who loves selflessly. I think someday you'll find someone who loves you in the exact same way.”
— Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift Advice
Tagged: Dating Advice, Relationship Advice, Taylor Swift Advice
“We looked at each other a little too long to be just friends.”
— Unknown, FB Fanpage
Tagged: Just Friends, Love, Relationships