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Unrequited love11 quotes
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. — George Bernard Shaw · 1898But miserable most, to love unloved?
This you should pity rather than despise. — William Shakespeare · 1599There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. — Oscar Wilde · 1895If equal affection cannot be
let the more loving one be me. — W.H. Auden · 1957I can’t make you love me if you don’t.
You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t. — Bonnie Raitt · 1991The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. — Thornton Wilder · 1927All 11 quotes →Love6 quotes
But miserable most, to love unloved?
This you should pity rather than despise. — William Shakespeare · 1599If equal affection cannot be
let the more loving one be me. — W.H. Auden · 1957I can’t make you love me if you don’t.
You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t. — Bonnie Raitt · 1991Never 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 · 1792A 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 · 1633The tragedy of love is indifference. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1921Dangers of love3 quotes
But miserable most, to love unloved?
This you should pity rather than despise. — William Shakespeare · 1599There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. — Oscar Wilde · 1895The tragedy of love is indifference. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1921Affairs1 quote
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 · 2009Challenges of love1 quote
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. — George Bernard Shaw · 1898Generous love1 quote
If equal affection cannot be
let the more loving one be me. — W.H. Auden · 1957Marriage1 quote
There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. — Oscar Wilde · 1895