Noun
unrequited love (uncountable)
Love that is not reciprocated, even though reciprocation is desired.
Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth. George Sand
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. Charles M. Schulz
Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs. Alice Hoffman
Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously. Cassandra Clare
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Gabriel García Márquez
On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare. Scott Turow