Comments on: It Hurts So Good – Why Requited Love is Less Interesting and 15 Favorite Instances of Unrequited Love in Fiction

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:42:04 +0000

I’d have to add Sydney Carton’s unrequited love for Lucie Manette in Dickens’ “A tale of two cities”…such a sad, sad story.

By: NijimaSan

NijimaSan — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:08:41 +0000

Cyrano & Roxane not on this list? Are you kidding me? Those two not being on this list a HUGE fail.

Your friends, the others who left comments, and yourself don’t bother to put in the couple that practically defined unrequited love? It gets a mere mention in reference to “My So Called Life”?

Absolute and total fail.

By: rey

rey — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:30:53 +0000

Someone forgot Bones! So much tension! And now we KNOW it is indeed love that is unrequited…I haven’t been able to stop watching.

By: jess

jess — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:32:00 +0000

What about Mal and Inara from Firefly??

By: Kyla

Kyla — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:24:18 +0000

Eponine and Marius in Les Miserables…Jett and Leslie in Giant…Julian Carax and his lady love in The Shadow of the Wind…of course, Rhett and Scarlett (unless you’re a sequel person, but either way they count)…William Dobbin and Amelia Sedley in Vanity Fair…and I would have to say pretty much everyone in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin…and for sheer, simple, touching power, the narrator in Cold Sassy Tree.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:08:40 +0000

we can’t forget rhett and scarlett.. !!!

By: Morgan von Ancken

Morgan von Ancken — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:20:24 +0000

oh man this is a sweet post, alex. trent and daria. old school.

the first ones i thought of were the poor kid in almost famous and jolly old gatsby.

By: Joey

Joey — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:32:21 +0000

So good, and so true… why is it that we always seem to want the things that we can’t have?

By: JK Evanczuk

JK Evanczuk — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:25:10 +0000

Number Eight! Number Eight! Drooooool.

Florentino/Fermina is my absolute favorite example of unrequited love in fiction. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the master.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:59:28 +0000

Whoever said Erik and Christine should get a cookie…how did I not think of that one.

And 500 days is a good one too.