71 Unexpressed Hidden Love Quotes (Love in Shadows)

71 Unexpressed Hidden Love Quotes

What would you say to someone you secretly love? Having a crush on someone can cause extreme emotions and feelings. The most frustrating thing is expressing your actual feelings. It is a complex emotion that many people feel but few publicly discuss. This post delves into the profound beauty of 71 unexpressed hidden love quotes you have for someone.

You know how it feels when your heart is racing but your mouth is closed? We’re talking about secret crushes and silent feelings that make you feel warm and fuzzy on the inside. Like you have butterflies in your stomach but it’s hard to keep them from flying away!

Hidden love is tough to deal with. When you fall in love with someone but keep it a secret due to shyness, fear, or timing, it can be difficult to express your feelings. A lovely secret that makes you smile for no reason but also makes your heart ache since you can’t reveal it.

Many people have been there, and some have been rather creative in their narratives. That’s where these quotes come into play. They’re for anyone who has ever had a strong feeling but couldn’t express it. Maybe you’ll read one and go, “Whoa, that’s exactly how I feel!” Some of these quotes may make you laugh, sigh, or join along.

These unexpressed hidden love quotes, all of them from romantic to funny, emotional to inspirational, can help you find the perfect words to express your feelings for your special someone. 

Let’s look at some of these quotes and at least write them down in your diary!

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Unexpressed Hidden Love Quotes

71 Unexpressed Hidden Love Quotes

1. “Love can be unspoken, but never unheard.” — Carolyn Riker

2. “I couldn’t take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.” — Laura Whitcomb

3. “Your eyes have spoken a thousand words that your mouth never did.” — Faraaz Kazi

4. “If you could see that I’m the one that understands you, been here all along, so why can’t you see you belong with me?” — Taylor Swift

5. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson

6. “My heart had a crush on him from the moment we met, but it was faint, and the rest of me stubbornly refused to play along.” — Jennifer Harrison

7. “Sometimes, the most intense feelings are found within the silence.” — Unknown

8. “I spent my days waiting for you, searching the crowds for your face. I stopped breathing the moment you recognised me, as you captured my soul with your gaze.” — Christy A. Martine

9. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” — Nicholas Sparks

10. “Love insists the loved loves back” — Dante Alighieri

11. “But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on.” ― Khadija Rupa

12. “A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.” — Ingrid Bergman

13. “The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed.” — Charlotte Bronte

14. “Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Meaningful Unexpressed Hidden Love Quotes

71 Unexpressed Hidden Love Quotes

15. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle

16. “There is a language, little known, Lovers claim it as their own. Its symbols smile upon the land, Wrought by nature’s wondrous hand; And in their silent beauty speak, Of life and joy, to those who seek For Love Divine and sunny hours In the language of the flowers.” — Unknown

17. “It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” — Unknown

18. “I have not been able to stop thinking about you. I wonder if you think of me too.” — Unknown

19. “Your very silence shows you agree.” — Euripides

20. “Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” — Osho

21. “I have so much that I want to say to you, but I can’t say a word.” — Michelle Burns

22. “I think of marriage differently. A Companionship of like minds. A tie that binds, yes, but in the binding comes strength. A lifetime with your dearest friend as your truest and best companion. That is what it can be. I believe that.” — Julianne Donaldson

23. “Smiling with sad eyes I’ve seen what you’ve been hiding.” — R.H. Sin

24. “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” — Leo Tolstoy

25. “Love consists in this: that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

26. “Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.” — Plato

27. “Love is all there is. It is the only thing that we can hold in our hands that can be meaningful.” — Emily Dickinson

28. “Love consists in this: that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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Romantic Unexpressed Hidden Love Quotes

71 Unexpressed Hidden Love Quotes

29. “Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” — David Wilkerson 

30. “What I’m dying to say is that I’m crazy for you; Touch me once, and you’ll know it’s true; I never wanted anyone like this; It’s all brand new; you’ll feel it in my kiss.” — Madonna

31. “Just thinking about you brings a smile to my face, a twinkle to my eye, and a skipped beat to my heart.” — Ash Sweeney

32. “The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.” — Steve Maraboli 

33. “If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden.” — Claudia Adrienne Grandi

35. “I have died every day waiting for you. Darling, don’t be afraid. I have loved you for a thousand years. I’ll love you for a thousand more.” — Christina Perri

36. “All I really want is to hold you tight, treat you right, and be with you day and night.” — Britney Spears

37. “I have a crush on your mind. I fell for your personality. Your looks are just a bonus.” — Nicolas Sparks

38. “Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

39. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn

40. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you directly without problems or pride: I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love.” — Pablo Neruda

41. “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are; hidden love can often be the reflection of unexpressed desires.” — Anaïs Nin

42. “The very existence of love often remains unacknowledged, a secret yearning hidden beneath the surface of our lives” — T.S. Eliot

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Hidden Feelings Unexpressed Love Quotes

71 Unexpressed Hidden Love Quotes

43. “I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.” — Francesca Lia Block

44. “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” — Pablo Neruda

45. “I hide this feeling only because I know you don’t feel the same and I can’t let you go.” — Alexus Brinkley

46. “The course of true love never did run smooth; sometimes, love must tread silently in the shadows.” William Shakespeare

47. “When I find myself thinking of you, it is all the good memories that we had that bring a smile to my face.” — Catherine Pulsifer

48. “To discard what is unwanted, and to retain what is needed, is what reform means.” — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

49. “You can’t stop the feelings you have for someone. You can’t lie to yourself either. Your heart knows the truth all too well.”

50. “The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.” — W. Somerset Maugham

51. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

52. “He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone realizes; he is a secret that I have kept and will keep for the rest of my life.” — Trist Allegiant

53. “You know, when you end a relationship and say you fell out of love, you actually mean you were never really in love. The past is a river, not a statue.” — Hanif Kureishi

54. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller

55. “I wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.” — Andy Warhol

56. “My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world⁠” — Dejan Stojanovic

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Secret Unexpressed Hidden Love Quotes

71 Unexpressed Hidden Love Quotes

57. “The extreme form of passionate love is secret love.” — Japanese Proverb

58. “I can’t wait to see you again, even if just for a few moments… my heart skips a beat and I get a silly smile that takes over my face… maybe someday you will feel the same way too.” — Karen Kostyla

59. “And they can’t understand, what hurts more— Missing the other person, or pretending not to.” —  Khadija Rupa

60.  “For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

61. “If you love someone, tell them. For hearts are often broken by words left unspoken.” — Stephanie Roogle

62. “Do you know what it’s like to like someone so much you can’t stand it and know that they’ll never feel the same way?” — Jenny Han

63. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou

64. “He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of separation removed.”  — Rick Yancey

65. “Just a friend, that’s all I’ve ever been to you. Just a girl who wants to be the center of your world.”  — Jojo

66. “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart; hidden affections can often carry the weight of the world.” — Jane Austen

67. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” — Voltaire

68. “In the bottom of my heart lies a secret which I have never told a soul in the world. There is an image of this person who is dearest to me and closer than anything else.”  — Melanie Rock

69. “Love never grows when it’s secretly kept locked in our hearts. Love will only find its fulfillment when it finds its way out and dwells in the heart of that person destined to keep it.”  — Unknown

70. “I pretend to look around, but I was actually looking at you.” — Unknown

71. “There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.” — Alphonse De Lamartine

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Final Thoughts on Unexpressed Hidden Love Quotes

I hope this article has helped you find unexpressed hidden love quotes that express how much you care for someone special or you can clearly convey how much that special someone means to you without having to say it directly.

Embrace the path of secret love, remember to acknowledge your emotions, and find ways to express them, whether through words, art, or actions.

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