Literary quote...?

Question

What's a good literary quote for a particular situation where a man tells a woman he can't be with her because he loves someone else, or he loves her but he also loves someone else, or he loves her but can't be with her for some other tragic/romantic reason. Preferably from the girl's perspective.

Can be from a play, novel, short story, poem, whatever. As long as it's literature. Or, if there's a really good one, I'll take movie quotes as well. Try to include the author or movie title or some way to reference it.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I just Googled 'love rejected + quotes' and was to surprised to find so many.

You need to make your own choice. Plenty to choose from.

Answer 2

A great web site with tons of useful quotations

http://www.5000quotations.com

Answer 3

Don't know if this is particularly applicable to your needs, but I rather like this one from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night:

"My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you."

So I guess it goes with the instance of a man telling a woman he can't be with her because of some tragic reason. One way to interpret it is that he tells her that as much as he wants to, he can't be with her because his own bad fate might perhaps influence hers negatively and feels it would be a bad way to repay her for her love, to burden her with that.

But to be honest, that's not how it is in context. You're better off not knowing just how platonic a statement it is so I'll just leave it as an out-of-context snippet for you.

Answer 4

"OMG whats up!?"