Unrequited love (n.) is certain death, say the lovers — the first time, the second, the third — and finally one day they die... of unhappy love: love takes three pulls, like a dentist with a firm molar.
An Unrequited love (n.) converts his deficit into a bill of exchange on eternity.
Unrequited love (n.) rightly borne is like Prussia's order for those who stayed home from the war of liberation, given "for good will": its star shows the cross more clearly than the order of the fortunate.
Unrequited love (n.) may have been invented by poetry, as prayer was invented by a mother at her child's sickbed; it requires an obstacle not in the lovers' power to remove — choose one love could overcome, and the poet becomes a satirist against his will.
Unrequited love (n.) claims almost no one now, but there is great competition to have been an unhappy lover — more than once — and to have overcome it.
An Unrequited love (n.) on a big scale keeps silent; she who opens her mouth as wide as possible to be one shows the comic treatment is correct.
Unrequited love (n.) kept secret still bears fruit — sometimes the most precious, ripened by the quiet burning of a hidden pain.
Unrequited love (n.) had its only true case in Christ's life — a terrible collision between the divine and the merely human understanding of what love is.
Unrequited love (n.) has been redefined by the reflective age: to be loved when one no longer loves — a definition that betrays a presentiment that conscience exists.