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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, Unrequited Love

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• The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the men who are their dads and stepdads; less shame for our sons who will become men; and, for our daughters, a deeper understanding of men's desire to please that leaves them feeling their willingness to please is not unrequited but returned - allowing our daughters to feel less lonely and more loved. If we earn more and love less, we pay for a home in which we do not live.

  Warren Farrell

  Daughter, Lonely, Children

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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• There’s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think it’s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesn’t return your affections might be exciting in books, but in life it’s unbearably boring. I’ll tell you what’s exciting: sweaty, passionate nights. But sitting on the veranda outside the home of a sleeping woman who isn’t dreaming about you is slow moving and just plain sad.

  Steve Toltz

  Dream, Moving, Book

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.116, Spiegel & Grau

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• The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Powerful, Law, Denial

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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

  Unrequited Love, Simple, Love Is

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

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• I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Passion, Successful

  "‘Impossible Pursuits’ on film: A Q&A with Ayelet Waldman". Interview with Katie Hafner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

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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 do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Unrequited Love, Cherish

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “The Poems of Goethe”, p.285

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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

  Unrequited Love, Color, Hug

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

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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, Unrequited Love

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

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• I am in no doubt that if you use the term 'luv' in a letter or text message then you are incapable of truly understanding the emotion. Artists have not pored over heartache and unrequited sentimentality for years so that our generation could decide that four letters is simply one too many to express how we feel.

  Jon Richardson

  Artist, Our Generation, Years

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• Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Passion, People, Trouble

  Mercedes Lackey (2004). “Four and Twenty Blackbirds”, p.238, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Unrequited Love, Reality, Peanut Butter

  "Fictional character: Charlie Brown". "You're in Love, Charlie Brown", www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.

  Peter Heller

  Mean, Knowing, Unbearable

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.71, Vintage

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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

  Unrequited Love, Waiting, Despair

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• He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.

  Stephen King

  Halloween, People, Appreciate

  Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

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• Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Girl, Strong, Sex

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.287, e-artnow

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• Unrequited love made right is the ultimate, isn’t it?

  Bella Andre

  Unrequited Love, Made, Ultimate

  Bella Andre (2014). “Let Me Be the One: The Sullivans: (Contemporary Romance)”, p.57, Oak Press, LLC

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• First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge.It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it can never be given back. It’s like an atom bomb. It’s like… It’s all the energy of who you are and who you want to be and what you love and what you hope to be explodes. It is impossible for a single... human being to offer that back to you in a mutual way.

  Stephen Fry

  First Love, Love Is, Giving

  "First Love Is Always Unrequited" by Stephen Fry, bigthink.com.

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• In high school, I had fun in my academic clubs, watching movies with my girlfriends, learning Latin, having long, protracted, unrequited crushes on older guys who didn’t know me, and yes, hanging out with my family. I liked hanging out with my family! Later, when you’re grown up, you realize you never get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that’s it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Crush, Girlfriend, Fun

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.33, Crown/Archetype

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• Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.

  Walter Moers

  Love, Wall, Book

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• Love songs in particular are so compelling because love is probably the strongest emotion you can have, and I think it's relatable to absolutely everyone, whether it's unrequited love or love.

  Sam Smith

  Song, Unrequited Love, Love Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love.

  Lan Samantha Chang

  Unrequited Love, Love Is, Inadequate

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• When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.

  Miranda Kenneally

  Unrequited Love, Memorable, Love Is

  Miranda Kenneally (2011). “Catching Jordan”, p.183, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I've got to be honest, I absolutely don't like designing romances. I think that you get a lot more drama and impact from failed romances, or unrequited relationships that occur in games. I think that creates more player tension.

  Chris Avellone

  Drama, Player, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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