“Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down.”
Source: Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
Variant: I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“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.”
“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