Quotes tagged ‘Need’

“I need all the time and a thousand times more than all the time and if possible all the time that exists, for you, to think of you, to breathe in you.”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com

“Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.”

— Joss Whedon, avclub.com

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”

— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com

“Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.”

— Immanuel Kant, amazon.com

“One day you will need someone like air and someone will be like the air you need.”

— Colleen McCollough, amazon.com

“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

“My desire and my need are different — I hardly know how to say it or explain it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

“I require books as I require air.”

— Sholem Asch, amazon.com

“And every time I try to fly I fall without my wings. I feel so small. I guess I need you baby.”

— Britney Spears, play.spotify.com

“Maggie Murdock: I'm gonna need you more than you need me. Jamie Randall: That's okay. Maggie Murdock: No it's not! It isn't fair! I have places to go! Jamie Randall: You'll go there. I just may have to carry you. Maggie Murdock: ...I can't ask you to do that. Jamie Randall: You didn't.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Jamie Randall, Maggie Murdock, amazon.com

“The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. He might get burned, but he's in the game. And once he's in, he can't go back, he'll Beat his wings 'til he burns them black... No, The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. . . The Moth don't care if The Flame is real, 'Cause Flame and Moth got a sweeth…”

— Aimee Mann, youtube.com

“She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

“But sometimes people can push away, just when they need you the most.”

— Mr. Matthews, amazon.com

“I need you as the one luminous point in my madness.”

— Henry Miller, amazon.com