Unrequited Quotes - Page 6

• Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

  Tina Brown

  Powerful, Unrequited Love, Hostility

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• I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love.

  Emily Levine

  Self, Narcissistic, Flip

  "Ready to Be Unprepared". Interview with Sudhamahi Regunathan, www.thehindu.com. December 07, 2012.

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• I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others, the 'economic means' for the satisfaction of needs, while the unrequited appropriation of the labor of others will be called the 'political means'.

  Franz Oppenheimer

  Mean, Political, Needs

  Franz Oppenheimer (1923). “The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically”, p.25, Transaction Publishers

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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

  Unrequited Love, Boys, Missing

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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, Unrequited Love

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

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• November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.

  Axl Rose

  Song, Rain, Unrequited Love

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• I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

  Sam Smith

  People, Littles, Way

  "Cover Story: Sam Smith". Interview with Jessica Robertson, www.thefader.com. May 28, 2014.

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• When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Mother, Children, Father

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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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• 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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• 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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• You know, most love songs are not cheesy and corny. Most love songs are complaints, I think. Or about unrequited love, coming at it from some oblique angle. Only the ones that say "I love you" over and over are the cheesy, corny ones that people complain about

  Stephin Merritt

  Song, Love You, Unrequited Love

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• My album focuses on unrequited love quite a lot because I don't think it's spoken about enough in music. I've been through it myself and I found it hard to find songs that were about that, so I've definitely tried to make that a part of my album.

  Sam Smith

  Song, Unrequited Love, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think there's nothing more painful for anyone than unrequited love. If you've ever had that kind of physical access to someone and then, all of a sudden, that is denied, and yet you're still in love with that person, it's very, very, very painful to be around that person in a certain way.

  Tom Ford

  Unrequited Love, Thinking, Kind

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• It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied, the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source.

  James W. Hall

  Love, Hunger, Twisted

  James W. Hall (2007). “Magic City: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Marriage, Thinking, Mind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”

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• A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women do suffer therefrom, in all its infinite varieties: loss by death, by faithlessness or unworthiness, and by mistaken or unrequited affection.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Lost Love, Loss, Imagination

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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