Unrequitted Love Quotes

“What is it that makes you cry? It is only your attachments. What is it that you miss when it is lost? It is the object of your attachment. Ponder over this. Find out what it is that grips your very life, without which you feel miserable and destitute; that is the center of your attachment.

Here is what you should do: make an effort to find out what things it would hurt you to lose. Then, before they are lost, open your hands little by little, relax your grip on them. This is the method for conquering attachment. There is bound to be pain, but you must bear it; this is your penance. It is not necessary to renounce anything. It is not that you should leave your wife and run away to the Himalayas. Remain there, where you are, but gradually stop depending on her. There is no need to cause any pain; your wife need not even know it. There is no need to tell her.


Seek out the attachments. Try gradually to live without the things that you now think you cannot live without. Create such a state within yourself that if and when these things are lost, there is not the slightest tremor within you. Then you will have attained victory over these attachments. This can be possible. It has been possible. And if it has happened to even one, it can happen to all.”
― Osho, Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“...You never forget your first love. It’s the most awful feeling in the world to love someone who can’t love you back..”
― Marie Coulson, Bound Together

“I’ve always thought that there are no couples in love nor any love triangles, only an Indian file where you love the person in front of you and that person in turn loves the one in front of him, and so on, and where the one behind me loves me and that one is loved by the one behind him and so on, but always loving the one whose back is turned to us. And the last one in line isn’t loved by anyone”
― Jorge Franco, Rosario Tijeras

“To love someone, who for whatever reason cannot return your feelings is painful. But if you listen to the poets, perhaps there's a kind of beauty to that love. It burns bright, and it's never tainted by reality or by overuse. It is clear and fierce today as it was the very first day it began. There is a beauty to that.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Anyone has a right to make a fool of herself if she’s really in love,” Caroline said. “There aren’t any laws. But you have to realize everyone else does it too, and forgive yourself. That is a law.”

“Whose law?”

“Caroline’s law,” Caroline said.

“Do you really believe that?” April asked softly.

“I have to. I try to, that is.”
― Rona Jaffe, The Best of Everything

“People are bound to remain anxious if there is a "should" in life. If there is an ideal that has to be fulfilled, how can you be at ease? How can you be at home? It is impossible to live anything totally because the mind is hankering for the future. And that future never comes—it cannot come. By the very nature of your desire it is impossible. When it comes you will start imagining other things, you will start desiring other things. You can always imagine a better state of
affairs. And you can always remain in anxiety, tense, worried—that's how humanity has been living for centuries.”
― osho, Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“The reins of our life are in the hands of the future. Man always lives today in the hope of tomorrow. And likewise he will live tomorrow in the hope of the day after, because when tomorrow comes, it will come as today. So he never lives really, he goes on postponing living for the future.
And he will never live as long as he lives on hope for the future. His whole life will pass away unlived and unfulfilled. At the time of his death he will say with great remorse, ”All my life I only desired to live, but I could not really live.” He had wasted all his todays in the hope of a tomorrow that never came. And on the last day of his life he faces a cul-de-sac beyond which there is no tomorrow, and no hope of any fruits of action. That is the despair of a future-oriented life.”
― Osho, Krishna: The Man and his Philosophy

“My greatest fear is that she'll look at me sad and say, "If you fought one day more, I'd have said yes.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Perhaps time does not heal all wounds; perhaps sometimes we just have to keep replacing the bandage”
― Hannah Allden

“Love, for some people is undying, even if one lost the partner.”
― Diana Palmer, Heartbreaker

“Hanya satu meter. Hanya satu meter jarak di antara kau dan aku. Namun, jarak itu menahan garis kehidupan kita untuk saling berpotongan. Sehingga kita hanya berjalan secara paralel, tanpa saling bertaut. Hanya bisa saling melihat, tanpa bisa terlibat dalam kehidupan masing-masing. Hanya bisa mengetahui sebuah nama, tanpa bisa memafhumi segala detail-detail di balik rangkaian huruf itu.”
― Nessa Theo, Affectum

“Imagine if Henry weren't serious and I ended up liking him just because I thought he like me? A woman shouldn't be expected to love a man just because he loves her.”
― Ayisha Malik, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

“Keeping you alive,
that is my primary purpose.
I am costless,
omnipresent.
Poor oxygen,
pitiable oxygen.”
― Santosh Lamichhane, Porridge Eaters and Gruel Drinkers: A Nepali Poetry Collection