Rachel Cohn Quotes

They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands

Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter.

I never knew anybody who didn't want to have a great love in their lives and to make a family.

What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.

Every heart desires a mate.

Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.

You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single....brilliant. Perhaps the most...brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche...or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can't hide. Every single successful song of the past fifty years can be traced back to 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding.

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

How we need another soul to cling to.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

I prefer love over sex.

We are wired to find love.

The appeal of romance is love. And that's universal.

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.

I think people desperately want to feel love.

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.

I'm human. I'm a person. I would love to be in a relationship with a man. I would love to find the right man; I think that's natural - that's what we all want.

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.

Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.