When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels... - Rosamund Lupton, Sister

My father gave me a ruined boy to compensate for the fact that he does not love me. The boy is fragile, broken—broke himself—broke everything.I asked him why he did it. He said because the world was unlivable. He said it was unlovable, but I think he meant himself. I think he meant that loneliness is sometimes painful.I curl against him, tuck my head beneath his chin and listen to his heart. It says stay and wait. It says regret. He knows what it is to want love, a love so fierce you grow roots. I hear his heart say please. He went looking for angels and found me instead, girl of the sorrows, sad but not sorry. I waited for a sign, a star to fall. He reached for a knife and drew branches. - Brenna Yovanoff

There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet. - T.S. Eliot

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it. - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

All actual life is encounter. - Martin Buber

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. - George Bernard Shaw

A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep. - Walt Disney Company, Cinderella

Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome, - E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

There are two ways to live a life either forget everything or, remember nothing. - Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. - James Thurber

A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. - Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon. - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. - James Thurber

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions - Leonardo da Vinci

If only you would realize some day, how much have you hurt me,If only your heart ever, craves for me or my presence…If only you feel that love again someday for me,If only you are affected someday by my absence…Only you can end all my suffering and this unbearable pain,If only you would know what you could never procure…If only you go through the memories of past once again,Since the day you left my heart has bled, no one has its cure…If only you would bring that love, those showers and that rain…If only you would come back and see what damage you create,I’ve been waiting for your return since forever more…If only you would see the woman that you have made,You said we cannot sail through, how were you so sure?If only you can feel the old things that can never fade,You may have moved on, but a piece of my heart is still with you…I know how I’ve come so far alone; I know how I’m able to wade,People say that I’m insane and you won’t ever come back again…Maybe you would have never made your separate way,Maybe you would have stayed with me and proved everyone wrong…If only you would know the pain of dying every day,If only you would feel the burden of smiling and being strong… - Mehek Bassi, Chained: Can you escape fate?

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness. - Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

Death isn't the end, it's the beginning. - Jennifer Love Hewitt

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture. - Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

With you, intimacy colours my voice.even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here'. - Warsan Shire

Do you love yourself enough to BE what you love yourself enough to WANT? - Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience