20 Movie Quotes about Unrequited Love (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Dec 6, 2025

Memorable quotes about unrequited love, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Did you honestly think she'd want you when she had someone like me?

Gaston From Beauty And The Beast in Beauty and the Beast (1991)

2 And does he notice my feelings for him? And will he see how much he means to me? I think it's not to be.

Chris Sarandon as Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

3 For you and for any dear to you, I would do anything. Remember sometimes. Remember that there is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

4 Any man can give love where he's sure it's returned. That isn't love at all. But to give love with no thought of merit, no thought of return, no thought of gratitude even, that's ordinarily the privilege of God. And now it's your privilege.

Barbara Stanwyck as Megan Davis in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

5 And you? Why did you choose to love a god? I think you'll find the romance one-sided.

Brad Pitt as Achilles in Troy

6 His true love is marrying another tonight. So who else has the cause for ultimate suffering?

Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride (1987)

7 I would butcher the whole world, if you would only have loved me!

Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus in Gladiator (2000)

8 It's a mistake you always made, Doc, trying to love a wild thing.

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's

9 Do they love less who have no hope?

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

10 Is it the courtly ideal of love? -What is that? What is its one essential quality? -Unattainability. The most intense joy lies not in the having, but in the desiring.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands