When You Were Pixels by Julio Alexi Genao

“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don’t let it spoil you, for it’s wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can’t have the one you want.” For years she had been the first thing I remembered when I woke up, the last thing that drifted through my mind as I went to sleep, and during the day she came to me obtrusively, obsessively, always with a painful shock.” It was involuntary, hopeless, compulsive.

“The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. I mean, it’s perfect… As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. “I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one.

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” ― Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and means, and those who come after paying the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.” “…unrequited love does not die it’s only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. “Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. “Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back. ― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.” Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. “Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.” ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma So if you’re feeling the sting of a love that cannot be, then these 50 quotes are for you. Unrequited love is one of the universal human experiences and some of the greatest works of fiction center around this theme.

Whatever the circumstances, one-sided love can be all-consuming, and sometimes, it helps to remember that other people have been there too. It could even be grief, the most painful form of unrequited love of all. It could be an unequal balance of love between a parent and child or another familial relationship. There are other types of unrequited love too. Whatever the circumstances, loving someone that you know doesn’t love you back stings pretty bad. Or perhaps it’s the heavy blow of rejection from a lover who chooses to move on without us. Maybe we’re overwhelmed by desire for a person we know we can never have. More often than not, it’s the love of the romantic type. Unrequited love is one of the most painful experiences we go through, and unfortunately, most of us have been there at some point in our lives.

When You Were Pixels by Julio Alexi Genao