"Love is like an Egyptian painting. Everybody's staring at the back of somebody else's head."
— Unknown
"Love's another sterile gift, another shit condition
That keeps us seeing just the one and others not existing"
That keeps us seeing just the one and others not existing"
— "Smother Love" by Crass
"Jessie is a friend, yeah
I know he's been a good friend of mine
But lately something's changed that ain't hard to define
Jessie's got himself a girl and I want to make her mine"
I know he's been a good friend of mine
But lately something's changed that ain't hard to define
Jessie's got himself a girl and I want to make her mine"
— "Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield
Snape: For him? EXPECTO PATRONUM!
(a large doe streaks through the room)
Dumbledore (with tears on his eyes): After all this time?
Snape: Always.
(a large doe streaks through the room)
Dumbledore (with tears on his eyes): After all this time?
Snape: Always.
"I walked into the room dripping in gold
A wave of heads did turn, or so I've been told
My heart broke when I saw you kept your gaze controlled
Oh, I cannot solve
Why can't you want me like the other boys do?
They stare at me while I crave you"
A wave of heads did turn, or so I've been told
My heart broke when I saw you kept your gaze controlled
Oh, I cannot solve
Why can't you want me like the other boys do?
They stare at me while I crave you"
— "Crave You" by Flight Facilities
"Without me, his world would go on turning,
A world that's full of happiness that I have never known!
I love him
I love him
I love him
But only on my own"
A world that's full of happiness that I have never known!
I love him
I love him
I love him
But only on my own"
— Eponine, "On My Own", Les Misérables
"I guess if someone doesn't love you back,
It isn't such a crime,
But there's a fine, fine line
Between love and a waste of your time"
It isn't such a crime,
But there's a fine, fine line
Between love and a waste of your time"
— Avenue Q
"Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been, lives in a dream"
— "Eleanor Rigby" by The Beatles
"You love her
But she loves him
And he loves somebody else
You just can't win
And so it goes
Until the day you die
This thing they call Love
Is gonna make you cry"
But she loves him
And he loves somebody else
You just can't win
And so it goes
Until the day you die
This thing they call Love
Is gonna make you cry"
— "Love Stinks" by The J. Geils Band
"He was always there to help her
She always belonged to someone else..."
She always belonged to someone else..."
— "She Will Be Loved" by Maroon 5
I've spent all of the love I saved
We were always a losing game
Small-town boy in a big arcade
I got addicted to a losing game
We were always a losing game
Small-town boy in a big arcade
I got addicted to a losing game
— "Arcade", Duncan Laurence
Someone said they left together
I ran out the door to get her
She was holding hands with Trevor
Not the greatest feeling ever
Said, "Pull yourself together
You should try your luck with Heather"
Then I heard they slept together
Oh, the less I know the better
I ran out the door to get her
She was holding hands with Trevor
Not the greatest feeling ever
Said, "Pull yourself together
You should try your luck with Heather"
Then I heard they slept together
Oh, the less I know the better
— "The Less I Know The Better", Tame Impala
"It's mad, to be in love with someone else
When you're in love with he, and she's in love with me
But you know as well as I do I can never think of anyone but you"
When you're in love with he, and she's in love with me
But you know as well as I do I can never think of anyone but you"
— "I Want To Wake Up" by Pet Shop Boys
"Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet."
— Attributed to Abraham Lincoln
"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
— Charlie Brown, Peanuts
"Unrequited love is not romantic. It is lonely and desperate."
— "The World Is a Waiting Lover: Desire and the Quest for the Beloved", Thomas Moore
"Unrequited love sucks."
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries
Miss Piggy: You may have noticed I have given my love to Kermit. You may also have noticed his reluctance in returning same.
Scooter: Oh... so you want me to get your love from Kermit and give it back to you? Oh, OK. Where does he keep it?
Miss Piggy: Amusing little twit, isn't he?
Scooter: Oh... so you want me to get your love from Kermit and give it back to you? Oh, OK. Where does he keep it?
Miss Piggy: Amusing little twit, isn't he?
Dr. Franklin: I guess that's one way to deal with unrequited love, huh?
Ivanova: All love is unrequited, Stephen. All of it.
Ivanova: All love is unrequited, Stephen. All of it.
"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
"Takumi loves Suzune-chan. Suzune-chan loves you. And you, you love Katagiri-san. ...That's how things are going."
— Kouji Tamura to the Main Protagonist, Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol.2: Irodori no Love Song
"I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."
— Pudge, Looking for Alaska
Fiona: You like this girl, don't you?
Charles: Yes. Yes, it's... It's a strange thing when at last it happens and she's marrying someone else. How about you, Fifi? Have you identified a future partner for life yet?
Fiona: No need, really. The deed is done. I've been in love with the same bloke for ages.
Charles: Have you? Who's that?
Fiona: You, Charlie. It's always been you, since first we met. It was so many years ago. I knew the first moment, across a crowded room — a lawn, in fact. Doesn't matter. Nothing either of us can do on this one. Such is life. Friends isn't bad, you know. Friends is quite something.
Charles: Yes. Yes, it's... It's a strange thing when at last it happens and she's marrying someone else. How about you, Fifi? Have you identified a future partner for life yet?
Fiona: No need, really. The deed is done. I've been in love with the same bloke for ages.
Charles: Have you? Who's that?
Fiona: You, Charlie. It's always been you, since first we met. It was so many years ago. I knew the first moment, across a crowded room — a lawn, in fact. Doesn't matter. Nothing either of us can do on this one. Such is life. Friends isn't bad, you know. Friends is quite something.
"Everyone in Paris can't be like this. I mean, I've seen kids."
— Zeetha (after witnessing one unrequited love too many), Girl Genius
"They want me. I want you. And you want someone else. But none of us want to turn around."
— Iain Thomas, "I Wrote This For You"
"You know the trouble with you lot? You're all in love with the wrong people."
— Mrs. Patmore, Downton Abbey
Oreste loves Hermione, who loves Pyrrhus, who loves Andromaque, who loves Hector, who is dead.
— Popular summary of Andromaque by the French playwright Jean Racine
Classmates: (in unison) Lisa likes Nelson!
Milhouse: She does not!
Classmates: (in unison) Milhouse likes Lisa!
Janey: He does not!
Classmates: (in unison) Janey likes Milhouse!
Uter: She does not!
Classmates (in unison) Uter likes Milhouse!
Milhouse: She does not!
Classmates: (in unison) Milhouse likes Lisa!
Janey: He does not!
Classmates: (in unison) Janey likes Milhouse!
Uter: She does not!
Classmates (in unison) Uter likes Milhouse!
I love her, but she loves him.
And he loves a girl who lives in Austin.
And she loves a boy who loves to drop hints
And I just found out it's me. Aw, shit.
And he loves a girl who lives in Austin.
And she loves a boy who loves to drop hints
And I just found out it's me. Aw, shit.
— "Squares Need Love Too", Camp Camp Season 3 OST
"We accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
Princess Anne: There was a beautiful girl who fell in love with a prince. Only, the prince was in love with another woman, who in turn was in love with another man. And they all lived unhappily ever after.
— The Crown on the Diana - Prince Charles - Camilla Shand - Andrew Parker Bowles situation
"I know you think I'm just a friend
But can we please just put an end
To all the graphic imagery that you insist on feeding me
You can't accept I'm not the one
That's getting to have all the fun
And maybe that's what friends are for
But I just can't take it anymore"
But can we please just put an end
To all the graphic imagery that you insist on feeding me
You can't accept I'm not the one
That's getting to have all the fun
And maybe that's what friends are for
But I just can't take it anymore"
—"Maureen" by Fountains of Wayne
