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1->''"Love is like an Egyptian painting. Everybody's staring at the back of somebody else's head."''
2-->-- '''Unknown'''
3
4->''"Love's another sterile gift, another shit condition\
5That keeps us seeing just the one and others not existing"''
6-->-- "Smother Love" by '''Music/{{Crass}}'''
7
8->''"Jessie is a friend, yeah\
9I know he's been a good friend of mine\
10But lately something's changed that ain't hard to define\
11Jessie's got himself a girl and I want to make her mine"''
12-->-- "Jessie's Girl" by '''Music/RickSpringfield'''
13
14->'''Snape:''' For ''him?'' EXPECTO PATRONUM!\
15(a large doe streaks through the room)\
16'''Dumbledore (with tears on his eyes):''' After all this time?\
17'''Snape:''' ''Always.''
18--> ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''
19
20->''"I walked into the room dripping in gold\
21A wave of heads did turn, or so I've been told\
22My heart broke when I saw you kept your gaze controlled\
23Oh, I cannot solve\
24Why can't you want me like the other boys do?\
25They stare at me while I crave you"''
26-->-- "Crave You" by '''Flight Facilities'''
27
28->''"Without me, his world would go on turning, \
29A world that's full of happiness that I have never known! \
30I love him\
31I love him\
32I love him\
33But only on my own"''
34-->-- '''Eponine''', "On My Own", ''Theatre/LesMiserables''
35
36->''"I guess if someone doesn't love you back,\
37It isn't such a crime,\
38But there's a fine, fine line\
39Between love and a waste of your time"''
40-->-- ''Theatre/AvenueQ''
41
42->''"Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been, lives in a dream"''
43-->-- "Eleanor Rigby" by '''Music/TheBeatles'''
44
45->''"You love her\
46But she loves him\
47And he loves somebody else\
48[[FailureIsTheOnlyOption You just can't win]]\
49And so it goes\
50Until the day you die\
51This thing they call Love\
52Is gonna make you cry"''
53-->-- "Love Stinks" by '''Music/TheJGeilsBand'''
54
55->''"He was always there to help her\
56She always belonged to someone else..."''
57-->-- "She Will Be Loved" by '''Music/Maroon5'''
58
59->''I've spent all of the love I saved\
60We were always a losing game\
61Small-town boy in a big arcade\
62I got addicted to a losing game''
63-->-- "Arcade", '''Music/DuncanLaurence'''
64
65->''Someone said they left together\
66I ran out the door to get her\
67She was holding hands with Trevor\
68Not the greatest feeling ever\
69Said, "Pull yourself together\
70You should try your luck with Heather"\
71Then I heard they slept together\
72Oh, the less I know the better''
73-->-- "The Less I Know The Better", '''Music/TameImpala'''
74
75->''"It's mad, to be in love with someone else\
76When you're in love with he, and she's in love with me\
77But you know as well as I do I can never think of anyone but you"''
78-->-- "I Want To Wake Up" by '''Music/PetShopBoys'''
79
80->''"Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet."''
81-->-- Attributed to '''UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln'''
82
83->''"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."''
84-->-- '''Charlie Brown''', ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''
85
86->''"Unrequited love is not romantic. It is lonely and desperate."''
87-->-- "The World Is a Waiting Lover: Desire and the Quest for the Beloved", Thomas Moore
88
89->''"Unrequited love sucks."''
90-->-- '''Damon Salvatore''', ''Series/TheVampireDiaries''
91
92->'''Miss Piggy:''' You may have noticed I have given my love to Kermit. You may also have noticed his reluctance in returning same.\
93'''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?\
94'''Miss Piggy:''' Amusing little twit, isn't he?
95-->-- ''Series/TheMuppetShow''
96
97->'''Dr. Franklin:''' I guess that's one way to deal with unrequited love, huh?\
98'''Ivanova:''' [[TropeNamers All love is unrequited]], Stephen. All of it.
99-->-- ''Series/BabylonFive''
100
101->''"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."''
102-->-- '''Creator/ChuckPalahniuk'''
103
104->''"Takumi loves Suzune-chan. Suzune-chan loves you. And you, you love Katagiri-san. ...That's how things are going."''
105-->-- '''Kouji Tamura''' to the Main Protagonist, ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial Drama Series Vol.2: Irodori no Love Song''
106
107->''"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."''
108-->-- '''Pudge,''' ''Literature/LookingForAlaska''
109
110->'''Fiona''': You like this girl, don't you?\
111'''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?\
112'''Fiona''': No need, really. The deed is done. I've been in love with the same bloke for ages.\
113'''Charles''': Have you? Who's that?\
114'''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.
115-->-- ''Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral''
116
117->''"'''Everyone''' in Paris can't be like this. I mean, I've seen '''kids'''."''
118-->-- '''Zeetha''' (after witnessing one unrequited love too many), ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''
119
120->''"They want me. I want you. And you want someone else. But none of us want to turn around."''
121-->-- '''Iain Thomas''', "I Wrote This For You"
122
123->''"You know the trouble with you lot? You're all in love with the wrong people."''
124-->-- '''Mrs. Patmore''', ''Series/DowntonAbbey''
125
126->''Oreste loves Hermione, who loves Pyrrhus, who loves Andromaque, who loves Hector, who is dead.''
127-->-- Popular summary of ''{{Theater/Andromaque}}'' by the French playwright Creator/JeanRacine
128
129->'''Classmates:''' ''(in unison)'' Lisa likes Nelson!\
130'''Milhouse:''' She does not!\
131'''Classmates:''' ''(in unison)'' Milhouse likes Lisa!\
132'''Janey:''' He does not!\
133'''Classmates:''' ''(in unison)'' Janey likes Milhouse!\
134'''Uter:''' She does not!\
135'''Classmates''' ''(in unison)'' [[AmbiguouslyBi Uter]] likes Milhouse!
136-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
137
138->''I love her, but she loves him.\
139And he loves a girl who lives in Austin.\
140And she loves a boy who loves to drop hints\
141And I just found out it's me. Aw, shit.''
142-->-- "Squares Need Love Too", ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'' Season 3 OST
143
144->''"We accept the love we think we deserve."''
145-->-- '''Stephen Chbosky''', "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
146
147->'''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.
148-->-- ''Series/TheCrown'' on the Diana - Prince Charles - Camilla Shand - Andrew Parker Bowles situation
149
150->''"I know you think I'm just a friend\
151But can we please just put an end\
152To [[TooMuchInformation all the graphic imagery]] that you insist on feeding me\
153You can't accept I'm not the one\
154That's getting to have all the fun\
155And maybe that's what friends are for\
156But I just can't take it anymore"''
157-->--"Maureen" by '''Music/FountainsOfWayne'''
158

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