Unrequited Quotations

When I was a kid, I knew the black and white version of 'Jane Eyre,' and I guess I became interested in the idea of romantic love - of unrequited love and the tragedies of that; of what are the important things in life; what should one value over other materials.

Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast force - as in tens of millions strong - of wifeless men who'll gladly wage wars around the planet to burn off all those unrequited hormones.

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

I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.

Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

On himself: 'I am a specialist in unrequited love' (mentioned to the audience at the Austin concert)

I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.

Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained

No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.

Ay, go to the grave of buried love and meditate! There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited - every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being, who can never, never, never return to be soothed by thy contr

It's a sweeping Western with tough cowboys, telling a time-tested love story that's simply about unrequited feelings. On the other hand, it shows two men having intercourse, which is a first for a mainstream Hollywood film. That's what has people talking.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

Unrequited love's a bore.

Yet, if God wills that (this war) continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be repaid by another drawn with the sword,

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

The only love that lasts is unrequited love.