“Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down.”
Source: Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
Source: Inferno
“Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down.”
Source: Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
“All love is unrequited. All of it.”
“Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.”
Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“Self-love seems so often unrequited.”
The Acceptance World (1955), ch. 1.
A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975)
“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”
Variant: I was laughing at you because declarations of love amuse me, especially when unrequited.
Source: City of Bones
“… the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love”
Variant: I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores