Unrequited Love Quotes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


"Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other." ~ The Parasite


"Well," said she, after a pause, "if you despise my love, I must see what can be done with fear. You smile, but the day will come when you will come screaming to me for pardon." ~ The Parasite


I sat down upon one of the benches in the park, and rested my head upon my hands. I felt numbed and stupefied. The world and everything in it had changed for me during the last ten minutes. People passed me as I sat - people who laughed and joked and gossiped. It seemed to me that I watched them almost as a dead man might watch the living. ~ The Fate of the Evangeline


Only in one thing he had never progressed. He could frighten his wife, he could dominate her, he could make here admire his strength and respect his consistency, he could mould her to his will in every other direction, but, do what he would he could not make her love him. ~ The Retirement of Signor Lambert