I was in the friend zone once. I will tell you a tale NS....
I liked this girl and she knew it, and she said that she loved me as a friend and I was awesome and all this jazz (and we were together all the time so she wasn't just bullshitting me on that) but she didn't want to date me. She also said that it wasn't because she was not attracted to me, she said she was and said that if we weren't such good friends she'd probably hook up with me. This made even less sense to me but whatever. So anyway, I watched her go through douche after douche, break up with him, sometimes she'd even say how she just wanted to try dating me after this happened but then she'd change her mind and go back to some other asshole. I just waited around assuming that eventually she'd realize she's being a moron. But she didn't. Eventually I found some other chick that was willing to fuck me, so we started fucking, but I didn't really like her much and still wished I could just be with the girl that was my friend. This fucking made the girl that was my friend extremely jealous and she eventually said that we should just date. I didn't really believe her since I'd seen this shit before but like I said I wasn't all that into the chick I was fucking anyway so I said what the hell let's go for it. Well she ended it, again, and I got so frustrated with this bullshit that even though I still really liked her and liked hanging out with her that it wasn't worth being friends with her anymore. So I applied for a job at Mammoth mountain and moved away.
And that is the story of how I became a ski bum.
It's all good now though, because I eventually found a girl that is my best friend and likes to fuck me to be my GF.
Anyway I guess my point is that if you're in the friendzone and think you're never gonna find another girl that can be both your friend, and want to have sex with you, don't give up hope. They're around.