Need for Love Quotes

Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it’s the thing that damages us the most.

We all want to be liked, loved, or needed. That is fine. What is not fine is what we are willing to do to make sure we are liked, or loved or needed. When we make the needs and wants of others a priority in our lives, we devalue ourselves.

I got to be constantly reassured that somebody loves me.

Over the long haul, many of those people [in a difficult marriage] will begin to reciprocate, because you are meeting a basic need in their life, the need for love, and they know they don't deserve love many times.

How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.

Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.

Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

We are all somebody's children, and when we're in pain, we regress, instinctively looking to our parents to make everything better.

Unless you're a serial killer, you're worried about being liked by somebody.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

The only way to store information is by agreement. The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind. Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive. Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves.

Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.