Human Need Quotes

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?

Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

We cannot, any of us, do all the things of which mankind stand in need; we must have fellow-labourers.

The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that?

People need stories; they want stories. They always will.

No one can live without love.

I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.

Compassion is subtler than Vitamin C, but both are real needs.

Buildings have been made because of man.

I'm on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.

Everyone's been lonely at some point and in need of a friend.

If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it.

We are all here, on this earth for only one go around. And everyone thinks their purpose is to just find their passion. But perhaps our purpose is to find what other people need.

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

Although I am a voracious plant predator, one has to realize that there is not a human need for fruits and vegetables: just ask an Eskimo.

To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to them. Albert Camus suggested that we fall in love with people because, from the outside, they look so whole, physically whole and emotionally 'together' - when subjectively we feel dispersed and confused. We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other. Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.

Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.

I can't even think of the right word, but it's not "help." It's more like a prerequisite. I think connection is why we're here, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and belonging is in our DNA. And so "tribe" and "belonging" are irreducible needs, like love.

'Naked' embodies what everyone, at the end of the day, really wants and how they should feel.

Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You... you fill me up.

We all want approval.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.