Looking for quotes about one sided love relationships? We have rounded up the best heartfelt collection of one sided relationship quotes, sayings, captions, status messages, and poems (with images and pictures) that are deep, sad, and quite relatable to you if you are in a one-way relationship.
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A one-sided relationship is one where one person is investing much more emotions, effort, time, and energy into the relationship than their partner. Sometimes the same love and feelings are not reciprocated and that is quite heartbreaking.
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In a perfect world, romantic relationships and friendships have a natural give-and-take. And if the relationship slips out of this balance it’s known as a one-sided relationship.
This can make you mentally tired, hurt, and impossible to take the fact that you are not as loved as you love your partner.
Also See: Friend Zone Quotes
Don’t forget to check out our collection of unrequited love quotes for him/her if you are heartbroken.
One-Sided Relationship Quotes
- “Dear Cupid, next time, hit both.” — Unknown
- “Those who love more are loved less.” — Unknown
- “It takes both sided to build a bridge.” — Fredrik Nael
- “What hurt you the most?” “My expectation.” — Unknown
- “No, I can’t close my eyes without you in my dreams
.” ― Luke Bryan
- “Seeing you with someone else is the definition of hell.” — Unknown
- “If they don’t make an effort to keep you, why should you?” — Unknown
- “I’ve never really known the word ‘hopeless’ until I met you.” — Unknown
- “I feel like I’m waiting for something that isn’t going to happen.” — Unknown
- “One sided everything about your love was one sided.” — Kelsea Ballerini
- “My heart is hollow and only you can fill it, yet it remains empty.” — Unknown
- “A hundreds of glances I give him each day, but not one I get in return.” — Unknown
- “Did you love him?” “Yes.” “Did he love you back? “ “Sometimes.” — E.Grin
- “Problems can be fixed. But unrequited love is a tragedy.” — Suzanne Harper
- “If the feelings are mutual, the effort will be equal. It’s as simple as that.” — Unknown
- “I’m not ignoring you, I’m waiting to see if you’ll make the effort for once.” — Unknown
- “If he’s not doing anything to keep you, then why are you fighting to stay?” — Unknown
- “It is not the separation that is unsettling but the stigma of being left alone.” — Unknown
- “Those eyes that have been my sun, it pains to see them shining for another.” — Unknown
- “When you quit texting people first, you realize who is making all the efforts.” — Unknown
- “Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.” ― Christina Westover
- “I wish I hadn’t been so blinded in love and listened to my mind instead of my heart.” — Unknown
- “You know you really like someone when you don’t hate them for breaking your heart.” — Unknown
- “People will hold your hand through the darkness but then let go when they find the light.” — Unknown
- “Sometimes you need to give up on people, not because you don’t care, but because they don’t.” — Unknown
- “With a love that’s so one sided there’s no chance at all. The walls have got to fall.”— Sonny & Cher
- “The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.” — Jonathan Harnisch
- “Relationships are worth fighting for, but sometimes you can’t be the only one fighting.” — Emily Christine
- “I hate myself for loving you but I hate it more to know you don’t love me as much as I love you.” — Unknown
- “All relationships have one law: never make the one you love feel alone, especially when you’re there.” — Unknown
- “Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much for them.” — Unknown
- “It hurts the most when the person that you feel special yesterday makes you feel so unwanted today.” — Unknown
- “I decided to put as much effort into contacting you as you do with me – that’s why we don’t talk anymore.” — Unknown
- “If you don’t receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.” — Robert Goolrick
- “In the end, we all just want someone that chooses us, over everyone else, under any circumstances.” — Unknown
- “There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who won’t even jump a puddle for you.” — Unknown
- “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.” — Federico García Lorca
- “A relationship is nothing if all the feelings, sacrifices, contributions and hard work are only coming from one end.” — Kisstopher
- “One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.” — Brigitte Nicole
- “No relationship in this world ever remains warm and close unless good effort is made on both sides to keep it so.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Watering artificial flowers will never make them grow. Stop pouring your energy into one-sided relationships.” — John Mark Green
- “You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can survive in a way that once-requited love cannot.” — John Green
- “Loving someone who will never love you back is like going to war and standing in the line of fire with your arms wide open.” — Unknown
- “Dear crush, please just smile at me as I smile inside every time I see you. And you’ll know how much power you hold over me.” — Unknown
- “For so long, I’ve only had one-sided feelings for other people. I’ve completely forgotten how good it feels to be loved.” — Hinako Takanaga
- “You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.” — Johnny Depp
- “Never get too attached to anyone unless they also feel the same, because one sided expectations can mentally destroy you.” — Anonymous
- “I don’t want a one-sided relationship…I want a relationship where both sides always put effort, time and love into making things last.” — Unknown
- “It’s hard to wait around for something that you know might never happen. but it’s even harder to give up when you know it’s everything you want.” — Unknown
- “If someone cries in front of you, it doesn’t mean that they couldn’t control the pain, it means that they trust you that you will wipe those tears for sure.” — Unknown
- “Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.” — Sarah Cross
- “Perhaps unrequited love was a specter in the house, a presence that brushed at the edge of senses, a heat in the dark, and a shadow under the sun.” — Sherry Thomas
One Sided Love Quotes
- “My worst habit is you.” — Unknown
- “I can’t unlove you.” ― Kenny Rogers
- “I want you to know, but I don’t want to tell you.” — Unknown
- “I wish I could ignore you the way you ignore me.” — Unknown
- “My heart is taken by someone I can’t call my own.” — Unknown
- “You are just another wish that will never come true.” — Unknown
- “I always think about you a little more than I should.” — Unknown
- “Stop chasing someone who is not afraid of losing you.” — Unknown
- “I made you a priority when all I was to you is an option.” — Unknown
- “I wonder what it’s like to be loved by you.” — Wonder, Shawn Mendes
- “Why am I so afraid to lose you when you are not even mine?” — Unknown
- “You won’t even know those quotes and poems are all about you.” — Unknown
- “Loving you is like a drug. It’s addictive but soon it will destroy me.” — Unknown
- “It is better to be out of love than to be miserable in a one-sided love.” — Unknown
- “The thought of you in somebody else’s arms kills me slowly every day.” — Unknown
- “People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.” — Pearly Tan
- “Nobody’s home but me I’m the only one hangin’ on one-sided love.” — Brooke Hogan
- “At some point, you don’t know each other, and you were doing just fine.” — Unknown
- “Our time is up. Trying to make this work, it ain’t enough one-sided love.” — Blackbear
- “You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.” — Kris Vallotton
- “Sometimes you have to forget what you feel and remember what you deserve.” — Unknown
- “Break my face, my back, my arms, my neck. But please don’t break my heart.” ― Sarah Bettens
- “My life has been a continuum of unanswered prayers and you bear the largest portion of that.” — Unknown
- “The pain of one sided love, of knowing that I had loved her more than she had loved me.” — Sierra Simone
- “Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in the drought which was useless and disappointing.” — Himanshu Chate
- “Love isn’t always perfect. It isn’t a fairy tale or a storybook. And it doesn’t always come easy.” — Linda Lapointe
- “When you care for people more than they deserve, you get hurt more than you deserve.” — Stephen Kyeyune
- “My greatest fear is not the monsters under my bed but it is when you said that you could never love.” — Unknown
- “If you wanna be hugged. Well, you’ve gotta hug me, too. Yeah, ’cause I ain’t for no one-sided love affair.” — Aldo
- “If only you know how much my heart beats for you, then you’ll know your thrall over my heart.” — Unknown
- “It hurts when you have someone in your heart but you can’t have them in your arms.” — Belinda Hernandez
- “Every time I think about you, I have to remind myself that if you wanted to talk to me, you would.” — Unknown
- “My silence is just another word for my pain. A love like I have for you, I’ll never, ever know again.” — Vicki Case
- “If you know you can’t take it, then baby, why try to give it? Cause I ain’t for no one-sided love affair.” — Elvis Presley
- “Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?” ― James Patterson
- “Every time she laughs, she hopes he’s watching, hoping that he’ll fall for her smile just as hard as she fell for his.” — k.m.
- “Well you know that I love you more than anyone can but a one-sided love I just don’t understand.” — The Beatles
- “There’s nothing quite as sad as a one-sided love. When one doesn’t care at all and the other cares too much.” — Dolly Parton
- “It’s kind of funny how someone person can break your heart, and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” — Kuhhrizma Clemons
- “One sided love is never gonna work. So let me tell you something that’ I’m sure you’ve never heard of tender love and care in case you’re unaware.” — Mandy Moore
One Way Relationship Quotes
- “If only, if only,” that’s been my anthem since I set eyes on you.” — Unknown
- “My heart is broken, you hold the pieces but cannot mend them.” — Unknown
- “If someone doesn’t fight to keep you, never fight yourself to stay.” — Unknown
- “One word from you would make my whole day bright, dear crush.” — Unknown
- “I find myself wishing every time, if only you knew you are the reason.” — Unknown
- “Cupid is nothing without harmony, and you made me understand why.” — Unknown
- “Somehow, I don’t know how you can miss seeing, how much I love you.” — Unknown
- “If only life was fair, but I understand it’s not, that’s why you cannot love me.” — Unknown
- “They say, “love is beautiful”. But If I love you so much, why do I still feel lost?” — Unknown
- “I love you, and it kills me each day to see that you do not feel the same way too.” — Unknown
- “I’m happy for you, while feeling unhappy that I’m not the author of your happiness.” — Unknown
- “I cannot fathom congratulating you on finding love when I’m not the giver of that love.” — Unknown
- “In my dreams, I felt complete and utter love, only to wake up with sadness and loneliness.” — Unknown
- “It’s a pity your heart beats for someone else because I cannot cage my heart to do the same.” — Unknown
- “Was I wrong for ever-loving you? Because that’s how I’ve been feeling ever since I first saw you.” — Unknown
- “We cannot be friends anymore. What good is it, when I get to hear your love for someone else?” — Unknown
- “I want people to know how much you meant to me. That you’ll finally know the feeling of my misery.” — Unknown
- “All of a sudden, my dreams seem to be better than my reality, because at least you loved me in my sleep.” — Unknown
- “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” — Shannon L. Alder
- “A long time ago, I thought I met the one. But all I did was meet my suffering, because you’ve innocently been my suffering.” — Unknown
- “Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.” — Eric Berne
- “You have so much power over me to make me happy or sad. Yet the only thing you’ve ever done has been the latter by saying no.” — Unknown
- “You know you’ve got it bad when you miss something you never had. At least even for a little while, I was the reason behind your smile.” — Unknown
- “A person doesn’t know true hurt and suffering until they’ve felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.” — Rose Gordon
- “I’m not saying that I think of you constantly, but I can’t deny the fact that each time my mind wanders, it always finds some way back to you.” — Unknown
- “It’s amazing how you could just accomplish so many things by doing nothing. That’s what you do to me when you make me smile just by smiling.” — Unknown
- “They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Thus, I’m insane because of you, I just can’t stop hoping.” — Unknown
- “Sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain’t gonna happen.” — Melissa Jensen
- “Any relationship (friend, romantic or business) that’s one sided isn’t one; it’s a one way street headed in one direction nowhere. Cultivation requires input from willing participants.” — T.F. Hodge
- “Being in love with someone who doesn’t even know you exist isn’t the worst thing in the world. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven’t gotten your grade back yet – that kind of exhale where you haven’t been rejected, although you pretty much know how it’s going to turn out.” — Tonya Hurley
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