Best Unrequited Love Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“What matters most, is not how my end happens, or if it happens now. What I care about in this instant, is that she knows how much I love her—that I lived long enough to have her love me back.”

“I write what I love.”

“Icarus should have waited for nightfall,”

“the saddest thing is to be”

“I am strange;”

“Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?”

“Fearful that they would be caught, the young lovers cast themselves into the sea with their stone, saying these words, "May we ever be united in love and hidden as long as this stone hides in deep waters.”

“My heart had been touched by him, battered by him, cradled by him as the days passed. He was cruel without meaning to be yet he was kind, and I needed him too much to let myself want him”

“You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. My mistake. My regret. My love.”

“Though it’s reasons to burn may vary... you are always the fuel of my fire.”

“There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up.”

“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?”

“There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it not been sanctioned by mutual assent. True or false.”

“Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.”

“He looked at me like I was the stars when all I’d ever felt like was the dark nothingness between them.”

“Among my stillness was a pounding heart.”

“Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.”

“Its been six weeks," he murmured. "Six weeks I've wanted you. I know how you move, and how the sunlight makes a shadow on the curve of your cheek, and the shape of your ear." He chucked harshly then turned his head on the pillow to look at her. "I'm dying," he said. He dropped his fist against his chest. "Right here, you're killing me.”

“His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her... He's probably forgotten that I'm here, beside him”

“She loved him. But he didn’t know how to love.”

“Your memory feels like home to me.”

“If music be the food of love, play on;”

“Unrequited love is, in fact, a delusion, because love itself is the manifestation of attainment. It can never remain incomplete or purposeless, for love is the most sacred and meaningful interpretation of the universe.”

“I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.”

“He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax...”

“Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.”