Quotes About Unrequited Love

Final goodbye unrequited love quotes

Unrequited love is like a melody that plays only in your soul. It’s both beautiful and brutal all at once. It’s hard because you can’t get mad at the person but sometimes you want. It’s tough when you don’t receive all that you put it and a person doesn’t feel the sane way. You are not alone. Know that you are awesome and the person who is for you will come.

The Silent Yearning

There’s a hush that comes with loving someone who doesn’t love you back, like a secret you keep even from yourself. Don’t just sit in the dark if you are experiencing pain. I encourage you to find a trusted friend and talk to them about what you are feeling. Ultimately, the feeling of rejection is rough and we all hate it but you will get through this.

1. I have loved you in silence, and in silence, I have lost you.
2. To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. (Federico García Lorca)
3. My heart beats for you, but yours doesn’t hear the rhythm.
4. The worst way to miss someone is to have them near and know they’ll never be yours. (Gabriel García Márquez)
5. I loved her, not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons. (Christopher Poindexter)
6. Unrequited love is a song with no chorus, just endless verses of want.
7. You were my almost, my maybe, my never.
8. I carry your name like a bruise I won’t let heal.
9. The heart wants what it wants, even when it’s deaf to your pleas. (Emily Dickinson)
10. Loving you was like shouting into a void that never answered.

A Flame That Burns Alone

Ever lit a candle for someone who doesn’t even notice the glow? That’s the fire of unrequited love, burning bright and solitary, warming only your side of the story. It’s a strange kind of devotion, and these ten quotes hold that heat close. Think about this for a second. Even if someone didn’t respond the way you wanted them too, there will be a person who responds in the way you want them too. God could have saved you from the wrong person.

11. I am jealous of everybody who is with you when I am not with you. (Vladimir Nabokov)
12. My love for you is a flame that lights no one else’s night.
13. You don’t see me, but I see you in every shadow I chase.
14. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. (Maya Angelou)
15. I’d rather love you from afar than not love you at all.
16. The hottest love has the coldest end. (Socrates)
17. I built a world for us, but you never moved in.
18. My soul aches for a home you’ll never visit.
19. Love that isn’t returned is a spark that never catches.
20. You’re the fire I can’t warm myself by.

Shadows of What Could Be

Sometimes it’s the almosts that hurt the most, those fleeting moments where you dream of what might have been. You started to imagine yourself with that person. A life with them and sharing the same last name. You pictured yourself laughing together and volunteering together. We create picture perfect music videos in our mind.

21. I loved you in a way you’ll never know, and that’s the tragedy of it.
22. The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. (Chuck Palahniuk)
23. You were my might-have-been, my should-have-been, my never-was.
24. I see you in every love song I can’t sing to you.
25. It’s not the goodbye that hurts, it’s the echoes of what never happened.
26. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. (William Shakespeare)
27. I’m haunted by a future you’ll never share with me.
28. You’re the dream I wake up from, still reaching.
29. Unrequited love is a ghost that lingers in the corners of your heart.
30. I gave you a piece of me you didn’t ask for.

The Weight of One-Sided Wishes

Loving without return is like carrying a load uphill, knowing there’s no one waiting at the top. It’s a weight that shapes you, molding your heart into something stronger, or maybe just more tender. One thing that I love about lifting weights is that it leads to physical results. Add that extra 25 pound and you will see your muscles get tighter. The stressors of life are doing things that you don’t even realize.

31. You don’t know how much I love you, and that’s the heaviest secret I keep.
32. If you knew how often I think of you, you’d blush or run away. (Oscar Wilde)
33. I’m tired of loving you in a language you don’t speak.
34. The course of true love never did run smooth. (William Shakespeare)
35. My heart is a garden where you’ll never bloom.
36. I loved you with a love that broke me open.
37. To love and not be loved is to feel the sun on only one side of your face.
38. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but only for the one who doesn’t feel it. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
39. You’re the wish I make on stars that never fall.
40. I’m a poet, and you’re the poem I’ll never finish.

A Heart That Stays Anyway

Even when it’s unreturned, love has this stubborn way of sticking around, like a guest who won’t leave. These final ten hold tight to that bittersweet resolve. I said this in earlier paragraphs, but I’ll say it again. It’s not the end of the world. You will be OK. If anything, look to something outside yourself. Jesus Christ!

41. I loved you more than you’ll ever know, and less than you deserved.
42. The heart has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of. (Blaise Pascal)
43. You’re the ache I wouldn’t trade for peace.
44. I’d rather have loved you and lost than never loved you at all. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
45. My love for you is a river that flows nowhere.
46. Sometimes the most beautiful love is the one that never finds its way back.
47. You don’t love me, but I’ll love you enough for both of us.
48. It’s better to have loved and wept than to have never loved at all. (Kahlil Gibran)
49. I’m here, loving you, while you’re there, not even looking.
50. Unrequited love is the bruise I press to feel alive.