Kate Chopin Quotes

Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

We can't be friends Cause I'm still in love with you.

I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.

She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else.

She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.

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

I wanted him to love me, and I'm quite sure that he didn't.

Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.

People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

When you fall in love, you don't have a whole lot of time. But when it comes to a heartache, all of the sudden you have time on your hands, and it's an outlet for you to write.

I just like being as romantic as possible. I thrive off unrequited love. I've been in love in one way or another since I was 14. I go full-on in and get obsessive.

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.

I can't make you love me, if you don't.

It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.

When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.