->''"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"''
-->-- "Smother Love" by '''Music/{{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"''
-->-- "Jessie's Girl" by '''Music/RickSpringfield'''

->'''Snape:''' For ''him?'' EXPECTO PATRONUM!\\
(a large doe streaks through the room)\\
'''Dumbledore (with tears on his eyes):''' After all this time?\\
'''Snape:''' ''Always.''
--> ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''

->''"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"''
-->-- "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"''
-->-- '''Eponine''', "On My Own", ''Theatre/LesMiserables''

->''"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"''
-->-- ''Theatre/AvenueQ''

->''"Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been, lives in a dream"''
-->-- "Eleanor Rigby" by '''Music/TheBeatles'''

->''"You love her\\
But she loves him\\
And he loves somebody else\\
[[FailureIsTheOnlyOption 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 '''Music/TheJGeilsBand'''

->''"He was always there to help her\\
She always belonged to someone else..."''
-->-- "She Will Be Loved" by '''Music/Maroon5'''

->''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''
-->-- "Arcade", '''Music/DuncanLaurence'''

->''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''
-->-- "The Less I Know The Better", '''Music/TameImpala'''

->''"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"''
-->-- "I Want To Wake Up" by '''Music/PetShopBoys'''

->''"Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet."''
-->-- Attributed to '''UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln'''

->''"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."''
-->-- '''Charlie Brown''', ''ComicStrip/{{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''', ''Series/TheVampireDiaries''

->'''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?
-->-- ''Series/TheMuppetShow''

->'''Dr. Franklin:''' I guess that's one way to deal with unrequited love, huh?\\
'''Ivanova:''' [[TropeNamers All love is unrequited]], Stephen. All of it.
-->-- ''Series/BabylonFive''

->''"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."''
-->-- '''Creator/ChuckPalahniuk'''

->''"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, ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial 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,''' ''Literature/LookingForAlaska''

->'''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.
-->-- ''Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral''

->''"'''Everyone''' in Paris can't be like this. I mean, I've seen '''kids'''."''
-->-- '''Zeetha''' (after witnessing one unrequited love too many), ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''

->''"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''', ''Series/DowntonAbbey''

->''Oreste loves Hermione, who loves Pyrrhus, who loves Andromaque, who loves Hector, who is dead.''
-->-- Popular summary of ''{{Theater/Andromaque}}'' by the French playwright Creator/JeanRacine

->'''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)'' [[AmbiguouslyBi Uter]] likes Milhouse!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

->''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.''
-->-- "Squares Need Love Too", ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'' 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.
-->-- ''Series/TheCrown'' 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 [[TooMuchInformation 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 '''Music/FountainsOfWayne'''

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