Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes

If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

Please do not leave me, he thought. He could not bear a world without Alli. He realized how much he relied on her from morning until night. She was his only conversation. His only smile. She prepared their meager food and always offered it to him first, even though he insisted she eat before he did. THey leaned on each other at sunsets. Holding her as they slept felt like his last connection to humanity.

After his kisses and hugs it feels like without them my body will fall apart into pieces.

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!

The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any one of us that doesn't need a crutch.

Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation.

I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.

She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet. If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me.

I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.

Only you could be more important than what I wanted...what I needed. What I want and what I need is to be with you, and I know I'll never be strong enough to leave again.

You fixed yourself. You didn’t need me.” “No, Sydney.” My voice was ragged. “I do need you. You have no idea how much I need you.

we had each other. I never needed anyone else. That’s the difference between you and me. You need all these people around you. Your friends, your boyfriend, everyone. Every single person has to like you. I only ever needed one person. Only ever needed you.

Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy.

I need you because I love you.

A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.

Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.

And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.

Let's face it - no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired.

Babies were dangerous . . . they made you fall in love before you knew what was happening.