"If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die."
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Because what's worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?"
― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment

"...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before."
― Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief

"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, Kill Me Softly