Love Isn’t Easy - One-Sided Love Quotes

It's not easy for you when you love someone who doesn't love you. It's like a river of fire and you have to cross it by drowning. You can't escape and get over this feeling easily. But this is one aspect of life and you know that you don't necessarily get what you want. It's okay to feel sad and lonely. Give yourself some time to grieve, process and then slowly get over that person. You might not "really" forget the person you love but you learn to live with the pain. That's why some words of truth and wisdom will help you in expressing yourself better. Some emotional and touching one-sided love quotes in this article will be relevant to your feelings.

Emotional One-Sided Love Quotes

When you don't get the response you are expecting, you are deeply hurt. There is no remedy or cure for unrequited love. But it can make you stronger because you learn to live without a person you love. Hopefully, these emotional one-sided love quotes will help you explore your feelings on a deeper level and become a stronger person.

Sad but true

One of the most gut-wrenching feelings that you can achieve is to fathom that your love is one-sided. There are so many "ifs", "buts" and "I wish" statements in your mind. How to process such a myriad of thoughts and emotions? The best thing to do at this point is to let go. The following one-sided love quotes will lessen your pain a bit.

• "They say heartbreak is a blessing. It helps you grow and turns you into a better, more powerful person. You become as strong as a beast." ― Priyanka Agarwal.

• "I wish not to tell you how I feel, I choose silence so that you leave. Kiss me goodbye and set me free." ― Sanhita Baruah.

• "Ever wondered how do you kill yourself without actually dying? Simple. Love someone who doesn't love you back." ― Faraaz Kazi.

• "One is never wounded by the love that one gives, only by the love one expects." ― Marty Rubin.

• "The heart was made to be broken." ― Oscar Wilde.

• "So it's true- when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love." ― E.A. Bucchianeri.

• "That throbbing thing in my chest can hardly be called a heart. It has been wrung out and deformed into something merely functional. Nothing can revive it." ― Anna Jae.

• "Must I go bound while you go free? Must I love a man who doesn't love me? Must I be born with so little art? As to love a man, who'll break my heart?" ― Cassandra Clare.

• "One of the greatest pain and agony is being in one-sided love with someone." ― Anurag Prakash.

• "Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go." ― Hermann Hesse.

Keep your hopes alive

The heartbreak of loving someone who doesn't love you back is brutal. The only thing that will make life worth living is hope. So, here are a few quotes that will show you the bright side of love, even if it's one-sided.

• "I'm happy for you but at the same time I am feeling unhappy that I'm not the author of your happiness." ― Unknown.

• "It's amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces." ― Ella Harper.

• "I hate to see the one I love happy with somebody, but I surely hate it more to see the one I love unhappy with me" ― Unknown.

• "A teardrop is insignificant in a pool of water, but it can touch the soul as it runs down someone's face." ― Unknown.

• "It's clear that you don't feel the same way for me. The problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you." ― Unknown.

• "They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Thus, I'm insane because of you, I just can't stop hoping." ― Unknown.

• "People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love." ― Daniel Radcliffe.

• "At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life." ― Unknown.

• "Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion." ― Javan.

• "Every heart knows pain. Some hide it in their eyes while the brilliant hide it in their smile." ― Unknown.

Be strong

One-sided love is a tragedy but letting it bring you down in a way that you stop living, is a bigger tragedy. You can't throw away everything for one person. Look at the faces of all the people who love you and brace yourself because you can still make your life meaningful.

• "You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can survive in a way that once-requited love cannot." ― John Green.

• "Perhaps unrequited love was a specter in the house, a presence that brushed at the edge of senses, a heat in the dark, and a shadow under the sun." ― Sherry Thomas.

• "Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else." ― Sarah Cross.

• "I have to admit, unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect. As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential." ― Sarah Dessen.

• "If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it." ― Robert Goolrick.

• "There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it." ― Shannon L. Alder.

• "A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere." ― Rose Gordon.

• "Sometimes, no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen." ― Melissa Jensen.

• "Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it flows back and softens and purifies the heart." ― Washington Irving.

• "A wall of stone was her heart. Kept knocking but never did its part. Mine was a pitiful little thing made of clay. I didn't know that this was a game she loved to play!" ― Faraz Kazi.

• "You can close your eyes to things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to things you don't want to feel." ― Johnny Depp.

• "If only life was fair, but I understand it's not, that's why you cannot love me." ― Unknown.

• "For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open horizons and possibilities and paths which are closed and unknown to so many clever, ambitious, and selfish men." ― Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina.

• "Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love." ― Clive Barker.

• "I'd rather be not the light in your life. The bright day might make me obscure. I'd rather be the cold darkness. For it remains unseen, uncertain and unsure" ― Sanhita Baruah.

Let the Tears Roll But...

After reading these one-sided love quotes, let your tears roll but never let this grief stay forever. It's okay to cry and vent out all the pain. Eventually, you are going to feel better. Give love another chance even if your love was one-sided. You might soon find love in someone else.