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SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Unrequited love✕clear

Short story

The tragedy of love is indifference.

W. Somerset Maugham

1921

★ 1.9

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

I thought our relationship was perfectly clear. You are an escape. You're a break from our normal lives. You're a parenthesis.

Alex Goran

Up in the Air · 2009

★ 2.0

Film · Fantasy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Fantasy · Comedy drama

I was in love with a man who could never love me back. I was living in a fairytale.

Jenny

Big Fish · 2003

★ 2.1

Poem

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.

Abraham Cowley

1633

★ 3.5

Poem

Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart; Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears - Ah, she doth depart.

William Blake

1792

★ 3.6

Novel

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

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on San Luis Rey · 1927

★ 3.6

Play

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

Oscar Wilde

An Ideal Husband · 1895

★ 3.7

Poem

If equal affection cannot be let the more loving one be me.

W.H. Auden

1957

★ 3.7

Song · Pop music

I can’t make you love me if you don’t. You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t.

Bonnie Raitt

I Can't Make You Love Me · 1991

★ 3.7

Play · Comedy (play)

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 5.3

Play · Satire

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

Plays Unpleasant · 1898

★ 5.3

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