One-Sided Affection Quotes

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. but I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun." The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half-smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

I receive a lot of letters like yours. Most go on in length, describing all sorts of maddening situations and communications in bewildered detail, but in each there is the same question at its core: Can I convince the person about whom I am crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no.

Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

I figured I couldn't love you as much as I do, without you feeling something for me too.

Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that. And when he leaves her, I'll be there. However long it takes, I'll still be there for her. Waiting.

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

Never, never have I been loved as I love others!

But oh, to him I loved Who loved me not at all,I owe the little open gate That led thru heaven's wall.

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-but even if Schuyler still loves him, or thinks she does, it doesn't matter. Because Jack is going to leave her one day. i know he will. He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that. And when he leaves her, I'll be there. However long it takes, I'll still be there for her. Waiting.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

I only had one boyfriend my whole life, and I never loved him.

It's never good to fall in love with someone whom you'd have to stab in the eyeballs to elicit a response.

Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?' 'None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.