It is not my duty to give way to hopeless and wholly unrequited affection; but, so long as I live, my chief struggle will probably be not to remember him too kindly.
The Christian can make money out of unrequited labor.
Can there be anything more contemptible, more laughable, more utterly and hopelessly absurd, than an old and ugly man declaring his unrequited passion for a woman who might be his granddaughter?
The idea of love had itself been hard to realize, but much harder to understand was the strange and solemn idea of unrequited passion.
It was the most undeserved, unrequited honour of my life that he would have had it so.
For a woman to see one flying around in the room at night, forebodes unrequited wishes and disposition which will effect the enjoyment of other people.
This is a dream of sadness; it portends an early decline and unrequited hopes.
To descend a ladder, is disappointment in business, and unrequited desires.
He had supposed that unhappiness would stem principally from cases of unrequited love, such as his own, but it was apparent that the disease magnified the painful aspects of mutual love as well.
Here roamed those who had fallen victims to unrequited love, not freed from pain even by death itself.
The sacredness of the Sabbath, the hidden memory of an unrevealed and unrequited affection, the slow years of gathering and wasting sweetness, are in the smell of the pink and the sweet-clover.
Yet not always in summer, even with the aid ofunrequited love and devotional feeling, is it safe to let the fire go out on the hearth, in our latitude.
Kalischer suspected that the lacerated heart was due to the composer's unrequited love for Magdalena Willmann, a singer then in Vienna to whom he made a proposal of marriage which was never answered.
All the family knew the story of her unrequited love, and treated her with a compassion which, while its tenderness was pleasant to her, was still in itself an injury.
So little may we know the people we spend our lives with, that the not unobservant old woman at the opposite door thought there was no more in her son's mind than in her own--a wish to save Val the pain of an unrequited devotion.
Other contributory circumstances were his liking for Norse antiquities which Oehlenschlaeger had just discovered, and the unrequited love he had just then for a blond maiden who was engaged to a lieutenant.
Seven years have passed in unrequited love-- Seven long, long years.
Thus Achilles boasts of his unrequited achievements in the cause of Greece.
It must have been a wonderful place for everyone except the wretched peasantry--whose unrequited labor built it, whose unrequited labor supported it, and whose bodies defended it.
Then it was said that the poet was mad, and there are some who have whispered that it was his unrequited love for the Princess Leonora which brought about this calamity.
Tisolino's disappointed son, whose heart was now filled with vengeance rather than with unrequited love, abducted his former fiancee by means of a clever ruse, and carried her off to his father's stronghold.
It is the inevitable consequence of an unrequited attachment.
Unrequited love is anguish beyond expression--anguish so severe that the heart will often break under it.
Death is our chief blessing, poverty our greatest happiness, and unrequited love the sweetest lot of man.
Its first incentive he may have found in his unrequited love for Amalie.
Lady, should such an one have looked on you, Ne'er wrong yourself so far as quote the world And say, love can go unrequited here!
What harm has unrequited love ever done to anybody?
For him to fall in love was itself a violent peripety, bound to produce a violent upheaval; and such was his pride that for his love to be unrequited would naturally enamour him of death.
The main theme is the poet's unrequited love for his cousin Amalie Heine (49, Therese).
An unrequited love for his cousin Amalie Heine became for a number of years the subject of his song.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unrequited" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: forgotten; ignored; neglected; thankless; unacknowledged; unpaid
