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24 Quotes Anyone Who Has Experienced Unrequited Love Would Appreciate

24 Quotes Anyone Who Has Experienced Unrequited Love Would Appreciate

True love manifests only when love is shared.

But romantic love is much more than a cocaine high -- at least you come down from cocaine. Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can't stop thinking about another human being. Somebody is camping in your head... And the obsession can get worse when you've been rejected.

— Helen Fisher, The brain in love

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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

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True love manifests only when the love is shared. Until that point, what you have isn't really real. Until you fully know someone, you can’t love that person for the right reasons.

— Paul Hudson, A Love Unshared: How To Get Over Your Unrequited Love

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I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

— Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish and English Edition)

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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

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Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks.

— Meg Cabot, Haunted (The Mediator #5)

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I did it all for love, only for love...an unrequited love. but what does that matter? What really matters is being close to the one you love; that was my goal.

— Paulo Coelho, The Spy

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This unrequited love business was driving him crazy. It was a feeling that took you over, mind, body, and soul. Worse than a drug that tore apart your flesh and spirit, and without which you simply could not live.

— Mirella Muffarotto, Sweet Cherry Chapstick (The Rook Café Book 2)

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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

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I am tugging on our love with both hands and even that isn’t enough to pull you out of yourself.

— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr

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Your detailed text messages, his one-worded response. You make yourself available but he never finds the time. You're always calling first, he refuses to call at all but you're stuck because you fell, he claimed to love you but in fact he didn't fall.

— R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II

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I was a fool! Loving someone who doesn't love you is hell! Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can be happy with someone who doesn't love you.

— Judith McNaught, Once and Always

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If you’re looking for the word that means caring about someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything they want no matter how much it destroys you, it’s love. And when you love someone you don’t stop, ever. Even when people roll their eyes, and call you crazy. Even then. Especially then.

— Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), How I Met Your Mother, Season 9: Sunrise

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Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them.

— Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel

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The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel

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I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else.

— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

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I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

— John Green, Looking for Alaska

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You can't keep blaming yourself for someone's inability to be the type of mate you deserve.

— R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II

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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 selfless and beautiful and kind. You are loving someone purely because you love them, not because you think you'll ever have your affections reciprocated. You are admiring something for its beauty, without needing to own it. Feel good about being the kind of person who loves selflessly. I think someday you'll find someone who loves you in that exact same way.

— Taylor Swift, Almost Love

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You can’t love someone into loving you.

— reminisceandremember, via Tumblr

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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”

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She's not mine and she never will be. She's not mine and it fucking kills me. She won't look at me that way.

— Moose Blood, Cherry

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Ah, unrequited love. When your best isn't enough.

— Emily Horne and Joey Comeau, A Softer World

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