61 Phrases About Impossible Love

He who loves, believes in the impossible.
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Love flees like a shadow, the real love that pursues it, chasing those who flee it, fleeing those who pursue it.
(William Shakespeare)

There is no punishment more severe than that suffered by a woman who finds herself trapped between a man she loves and another who loves her.
(Khalil Gibran)

Life is too short to waste it chasing an impossible love.
(Henri-Frederic Amiel)

With women who do not love us, as with the “missing,” knowing that we have nothing left to hope for does not prevent us from continuing to wait.
(Marcel Proust)

The worst way to miss someone is to sit next to them and know you can never have them.
(Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

I love her and she loves me not; I write to her, she does not answer; I look at her, she does not look at me; I seek her and she hides. For her I wasted treasures, I threw gift after gift, I devised, plotting, the flight of opportunities. Alas! all was in vain! I remained on the stairs, Neglected, empty-mouthed, singing a madrigal.
(Arrigo Boito and Giuseppe Verdi)

I love those who aspire to the impossible.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

To love means to devote oneself to a woman without expecting any reward; it means to live under another sun, with the fear of ever touching it.
(Honoré de Balzac)

I can’t live with you, nor without you.
(Ovid)

When you love without provoking love, that is, when your love as love does not produce reciprocal love, and through your manifestation of life, as a man who loves, you do not make yourself a loved man, your love is impotent, it is a misfortune.
(Karl Marx)

When you give someone your whole heart and they don’t want it, you can’t take it back. It’s gone forever.
(Sylvia Plath)

Down-to-earth people say that love is madness. In reality what happens is that the fantasy violently distorted by very pleasant images, where every step brings you closer to happiness, is crudely brought back to the harsh reality.
(Gustave Flaubert)

And what else can love be if not a secret madness, an oppressive bitterness and a beneficial sweetness.
(William Shakespeare)

My greatest pain is not being able to do anything for the person I love.
(Jim Morrison)

Impossible loves. I am very afraid that they could become an addiction.
(Caesar Borgia)

Only an impossible love can be eternal.
(Anonymous)

Unhappy love is the heaviest suffering, but in turn the heaviest, most tormenting unhappy love is when the object of love is such that by its nature it cannot be loved, while for the lover it is the only object that he desires with all his heart.
(Soren Kierkegaard)

Loving someone who doesn’t love you is like waiting for a train at the airport.
(Anonymous)

The course of true love has never run smoothly.
(William Shakespeare)

The only way to know a person is to love them without hope.
(Walter Benjamin)

The only thing that divides us is reality.
(Anonymous)

Sometimes it’s better to love an impossible love than to have it without being able to love it.
(Anonymous)

Hell is the suffering of no longer being able to love.
(Fyodor Dostoevsky)

We are never so defenseless as when we love.
(Sigmund Freud)

I do everything I can to forget you, but I always miss you.
(Anonymous)

It is sad not to be loved, but even sadder is not to be able to love.
(Miguel Unamuno)

Impossible love is the most beautiful, the strongest, the most romantic, the purest.
(Anonymous)

There are depths that love cannot bridge, no matter how strong its wings.
(Honoré de Balzac)

Dying for an impossible love is the opposite of love.
(Albert Camus)

Only those who love without hope know love.
(Friedrich Schiller)

Never before had she felt so honestly that she could love him, never before when all her love was in vain.
(Jane Austen)

It is already a happiness to be able to love, even when you are alone in loving.
(Théophile Gautier)

Love forgives everything except one thing: not being loved.
(Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire)

You don’t choose who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for an adult to love another. Almost impossible.
(Katharine Hepburn)

It is impossible to love and be wise at the same time.
(Francis Bacon)

Of all the insults that fate has in store for man, there is none more terrible than unrequited love.
(Maxim Gorky)

If two people love each other, there can be no happy ending.
(Ernest Hemingway)

Love is blind and lovers cannot see.
(William Shakespeare)

I hate and I love. Why I do it, you may ask. I don’t know, but I feel it happening and it torments me.
(Gaius Valerius Catullus)

Life is crazy. You find your soulmate, but you are not theirs.
(Anonymous)

Love is all the more probable the more impossible it seems.
(Jules Sandeau)

Impossible loves never end, they are the ones that last forever.
(Ferzan Ozpetek)

We took two different paths forgetting that the world is round.
(Anonymous)

See you tonight. Same time. Same place. Same dream.
(Anonymous)

A mocking law of life is this: not the one who gives but the one who demands is loved. That is, the one who does not love is loved, because the one who loves gives. And it is understood: giving is a more unforgettable pleasure than receiving; what we have given to, becomes necessary to us, that is, we love it.
(Caesar Pavese)

Love is when the desire to be desired makes you feel so bad you feel like you might die.
(Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec)