We Love Each Other But Can't Be Together Quotes

Unrequited love is one of the most profoundly painful experiences the human heart can endure. When you care deeply for someone, yet circumstances prevent you from being together, it can feel like an exquisite torture of the soul. I know that ache all too well.

The quotes you requested capture the nuanced anguish and wistfulness of loving someone you cannot have. How accurately they articulate the specific melancholy of seeing that person, sitting close but untouchable! The piercing regret of imagining how things could have been different had fate not intervened. The small comfort of feeling your hearts still beat as one, though miles may separate you.

Love unfulfilled is a particular kind of loss - you grieve for missed potential as much as the person themselves. The hollow space their absence leaves behind is deafening. But true devotion, though unrequited, is never wasted. Love transforms us from within, even in separation.

In time, the searing pain gives way to bittersweet remembrance and gratitude. The love, though unrealized, was real - that you can cherish. Healing comes gradually as you learn to live beside the silence, no longer drowning in words left unsaid. You carry the love within you, changed but not diminished.

These quotes honor the heartache of loves left unlived. May their poetic empathy resonate and help soothe your sorrow. Though lonely, you are not alone in loving someone you cannot be with. Take comfort in the kinship of souls who understand.

We Love Each Other But Can't Be Together

1. "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride." - Pablo Neruda
2. "I wanted nothing more than to be able to smile at you again, hold you again, kiss you again. I never wanted it to be this way for us." 
3. "Being apart is so much more difficult than being together. I miss you every second."
4. "Even the strongest hearts can be broken. Even the most powerful loves can succumb to time. All I am left with is the memory of how we once were." 
5. "My heart may be bruised and scarred, but it will keep loving you until the end of time."
6. "I wish I could turn back time and hold you again in my arms. But all I can do now is hold you in my heart."
7. "I still love you despite the heartbreaking reality that we can't be together. My heart sees what my mind knows." 
8. "Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart."
9. "I love you more than any distance between us. But the distance is still there, keeping us apart."
10. "Being in love with you and being unable to be with you is the hardest thing I have ever experienced."
11. "My heart will forever say we're meant to be, even as my mind says we're better apart."
12. "I don't think you ever forget your first love. A part of you always wishes things could have turned out differently."
13. "Distance is only a test to see how far love can truly travel."
14. "There's an ocean of silence between us now. All the words we're not saying are drowning me."
15. "I wish I could run away from this aching in my chest, but my heart lives in your hands whether we're together or apart."
16. "Missing you comes in waves, tonight I'm drowning."
17. "You are sunlight through a window, lighting up the darkest corners of my heart."
18. "Love unfulfilled is like a wilted flower; it will never bloom even if replanted."
19. "The cruelest way to miss somebody is to be sitting right next to them knowing you can't have them."
20. "I don't think you ever fall out of love with someone, you just learn to live without them."
21. "Distance means so little when someone means so much."
22. "If I could have just one wish, I would wish to wake up everyday to the sound of your breath on my neck, the warmth of your lips on my cheek, the touch of your fingers on my skin."
23. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." - Maya Angelou
24. "Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." - Khalil Gibran
25. "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride." - Pablo Neruda
26. "The saddest thing is loving someone so much and not being able to have them."
27. "I wanted nothing more than to be able to smile at you again, hold you again, kiss you again. I never wanted it to be this way for us."
28. "Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart."
29. "Being apart is so much more difficult than being together. I miss you every second."
30. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." - Maya Angelou
31. "If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with..."
32. "I wish I could turn back time and hold you again in my arms. But all I can do now is hold you in my heart."
33. "Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." - Khalil Gibran
34. "If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Herman Hesse
35. "The saddest thing is loving someone so much and not being able to have them."
36. "I love you more than any distance between us. But the distance is still there, keeping us apart."
37. "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source." - Anais Nin
38. "Being apart is so much more difficult than being together. I miss you every second."
39. "Love knows no distance, it hops fences, jumps hurdles, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination."
40. "Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
41. "If I know what love is, it is because of you."
42. "In true love, you attain freedom."
43. "Distance means so little when someone means so much."
44. "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones."
45. "If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with..."
46. "It's hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember."
47. "True love stories never have endings." - Richard Bach
48. "Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart." - Washington Irving
49. "Love knows no distance, it hops fences, jumps hurdles, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination."
50. "If you love someone but you can't have them, cherish them from afar."
51. "Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning
52. "Where there is love there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi
53. "The saddest thing is loving someone so much and not being able to have them."
54. "Love understands love; it needs no talk." - Frances Ridley Havergal
55. "Distance means so little when someone means so much."
56. "True love stories never have endings."
57. "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source."
58. "Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
59. "If you love someone but you can't have them, cherish them from afar."
60. "Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
61. "It's hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember."
62. "Love understands love; it needs no talk."
63. "Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."
64. "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones."
65. "If I know what love is, it is because of you."
66. "In true love, you attain freedom."
67. "Where there is love there is life."
68. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."
69. "The saddest thing is loving someone so much and not being able to have them."
70. "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride."
71. "If you love someone but you can't have them, cherish them from afar."
72. "Being apart is so much more difficult than being together. I miss you every second."
73. "If I know what love is, it is because of you."
74. "Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
75. "Distance means so little when someone means so much."
76. "True love stories never have endings."
77. "Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."
78. "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones."
79. "Love understands love; it needs no talk."
80. "Where there is love there is life."
81. "In true love, you attain freedom."
82. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."
83. "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source."
84. "Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
85. "The saddest thing is loving someone so much and not being able to have them."
86. "I wanted nothing more than to be able to smile at you again, hold you again, kiss you again. I never wanted it to be this way for us."
87. "Being apart is so much more difficult than being together. I miss you every second."
88. "Even the strongest hearts can be broken. Even the most powerful loves can succumb to time. All I am left with is the memory of how we once were."
89. "My heart may be bruised and scarred, but it will keep loving you until the end of time."
90. "There's an ocean of silence between us now. All the words we're not saying are drowning me."
91. "I wish I could run away from this aching in my chest, but my heart lives in your hands whether we're together or apart."
92. "Missing you comes in waves, tonight I'm drowning."
93. "You are sunlight through a window, lighting up the darkest corners of my heart."
94. "Love unfulfilled is like a wilted flower; it will never bloom even if replanted."
95. "The cruelest way to miss somebody is to be sitting right next to them knowing you can't have them."
96. "I don't think you ever fall out of love with someone, you just learn to live without them."
97. "Love knows no distance, it hops fences, jumps hurdles, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."
98. "If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with..."
99. "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride."
100. "If I know what love is, it is because of you."
101. "In true love, you attain freedom."
102. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."
103. "Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
104. "Distance means so little when someone means so much."
105. "Being apart is so much more difficult than being together. I miss you every second."
106. "I wish I could turn back time and hold you again in my arms. But all I can do now is hold you in my heart."
107. "Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart."
108. "I love you more than any distance between us. But the distance is still there, keeping us apart."
109. "Being in love with you and being unable to be with you is the hardest thing I have ever experienced."
110. "Even the strongest hearts can be broken. Even the most powerful loves can succumb to time. All I am left with is the memory of how we once were."