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• Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down.

  Sam Savage

  Love Is, Unrequited

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• Although love unreturned can drive you to despair, trust that somewhere out there, someone is waiting just for you.

  Laura Ramirez

  Waiting, Despair, Somewhere Out There

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• Somewhere there must one Made for this soul, to move it.

  William Johnson Cory

  Love, Moving, Soul

  William Johnson Cory (1858). “Ionica”, p.31

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

  Meg Cabot

  Real, Book, Love Is

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Mediator #5: Haunted”, p.219, Zondervan

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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... 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 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

  Love, Dream, Lying

  "Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, 2005.

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• Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

  James M. Barrie

  Love, Happiness, Broken Heart

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.215, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Love, Relationship, Hate

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• Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.

  Ben Elton

  Lying, Jealous, Passion

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• Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

  Merle Shain

  Inspirational, Fear, Cost

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Boys, Missing, Useless

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• Everyone has their own experiences with song. It means one thing to me and it means something entirely different to somebody else. I have a song called 'Apple Cherry' which is a song about unrequited love and to this couple in London, they fell in love to this song. The girl in the relationship called me and said she wanted to propose to her girlfriend could you sing 'Apple Cherry' while I do it? I was like 'Really? That's not a love song about getting together'.

  NAO

  Girl, Song, Couple

  Source: acclaimmag.com

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• How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!

  Charles Dickens

  Heartbreak, Taken, Men

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations”, p.193

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• Theres so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

  Lucinda Williams

  Writing, Unrequited

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• 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

  Hipster, Way, Like You

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.30, Penguin

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• That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.

  Ursula Hegi

  Children, Love You, Parenting

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• Molly works because, while Watson is ‘the audience’, Molly is every woman of a certain age sitting at home on the settee fantasizing about running their hands through Benedict Cumberbatch's hair. ...Also, I think most people have experienced the agony and the ignominy of unrequited love. I’ve never thought Molly was an idiot. She just really, really loves him.

  Louise Brealey

  Running, Home, Thinking

  "Louise Brealey: 'I don't think Molly is really Sherlock's type'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2012.

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• Unrequited love," I'd say. He'd look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, "what about it?" and I'd reply, "it's not your color." Pithy. Just to show him that I'd noticed. Or maybe I'd show myself to her and say, "Guess I'm not the only one who uses humans around here." And then I'd summon some of Owain's hounds to chew off the bottom bits of her legs. Then she wouldn't fit just right into his arms. She'd be too short. It'd be like hugging a midget. Nuala- pg. 75

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Color, Hug, Looks

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie”, p.82, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• By the Angel, Bridget’s depressing,” said Henry, setting down his newspaper directly on his plate and causing the edge to soak through with egg yolk. Charlotte opened her mouth as if to object, and closed it again. “It’s all heartbreak, death and unrequited love.” “Well, that is what most songs are about,” said Will. “Requited love is nice, but it doesn’t make much of a ballad.

  Cassandra Clare

  Song, Depressing, Nice

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• Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Hate, Love You, Violent

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is as simple as the absence of self- given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.

  Criss Jami

  Simple, Love Is, Self

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.83, Criss Jami

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• Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Hate, Integrity, Science

  "Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays".

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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. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Falling In Love, People, Waiting

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.347, Pan Macmillan

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• The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path.

  Garrison Keillor

  Love, Heart, Rivers

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• I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

  Susan Sontag

  Past, Devotion, Form

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?

  John Suckling

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.65

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