quotes about unrequited love & emotional exhaustion
Loving someone who doesn’t love you back can feel like a punch to the heart. Every rejection and let down can feel traumatic. It can feel like it defines your worth and who will love you in the future.
So much of my college years and early twenties post-grad were defined by feelings of confusion and low self esteem due to lack of romantic love growing up.
Thoughts constantly flooded my mind of how I could possibly not have a man, who truly valued who I am beyond body parts and looks, especially after this one experience with someone I really thought I loved.
Love that feels one sided sucks. But it’s not productive or fair to yourself to let someone’s lack of sight into how great you are define how you see yourself. It’s not fair to assume you’re unlovable or unworthy of future love.
Here are some quotes to remind you that unrequited love doesn’t define you or your worth. Emotional exhaustion can hit with rejections, but these quotes should give you strength and support your self love journey.
dealing with unrequited love and emotional exhaustion quotes:
“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
“Unrequited love does not die; it’s only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded.”
― Elle Newmark
“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt
“I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda
“You know, unrequited love is very difficult? It’s not just having this one-sided love of someone who’s far away. Being close, talking daily, liking a guy who’s constantly near me is harder than it would be under different circumstances.”
― Park So Hee
“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”
― Christina Westover
“The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone, when you’ve made them your eternity.”
― Sanober Khan
“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
“I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”
― Hermann Hesse
“Being in love with someone who doesn’t even know you exist isn’t the worst thing in the world. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven’t gotten your grade back yet — that kind of exhale where you haven’t been rejected, although you pretty much know how it’s going to turn out.”
― Tonya Hurley
additional content: growing up without any romantic connections gave me trauma
