59 Need Quotes

Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch.

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.

As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need -- tremendous self control.

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for witholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires a sorest need. Not one of all the purple Host Who took the Flag today Can tell the definition So clear of Victory As he defeated - dying - On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Burst agonized and clear!

But in deed, A friend is never known till a man have need.

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species.

Touch me, hold me. How my open arms ache! Try to fall for me.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I hold that to need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer he does approach divinity.

Though we're absolute beginners With nothing much at stake As long as you're still smiling There's nothing more I need.

Poor little thing! She's gasping for love like a carp on a kitchen table gasping for water.

The void in his mind athrob for the soothing pressure of knowledge.

Mankind still needs a savior such as you!

I told him...that we ate when we were not hungry, and drank without the provocation of thirst.

(On leaving money to found a psychiatric hospital in Dublin) No nation needs it so much.

We needed you To love us too. We wait for your move.

I needed you To love me too. I wait for your move.

Do you know what I really need? I need love love love love love, yeah!

I turn to my computer like a friend. I need deeper understanding. Give me deeper understanding...

Oh! Don't you throw my love away, I need your loving, I need your loving...

I need love! Love! Non-stop! And I want to give love because I have so much of it. No one understands the sole purpose of my whoring is to spend myself totally.

He wanted to feed the hunger of his skin. The hunger of his body not so much for orgasm but for that need to be held close and tight, that need we all have to press our nakedness against someone else's.

She might be protective and possessive with her children whom she thought of as needing her, but with the people she needed, she was the opposite. If she feared they would be taken from her, she withdrew from them; she stopped permitting herself to need them.

What had been lost was found again. And those who had been hungry without knowing the name of their hunger, were fed.

Don't you know... That I love you? Don't you know that I don't want to live without you?

Why can you be so deeply understanding of her, and so completely incapable of understanding me? ... You never needed me the was [she] needs me. You never needed anybody. If you had ever bothered to come to know me, you'd know that that is the exact opposite of the truth. Well, well. So we part in utter ignorance of each other.

My head hurts. Don't you think we could get more drugs?

I want her everywhere and if she's beside me I know I need never care. But to love her is to need her Everywhere, knowing that love is to share each one believing that love never dies watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there.

Cover me when I run Cover me through the fire Something knocked me out' the trees Now I'm on my knees Cover me, darling please.

She needed his gentle hands and quiet tears, his lies and his affection. And so she pretended to believe that he really did need her

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

That is straight from hunger.

Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.

Alles Wollen entspringt aus Bedurfnis, also aus Mangel, also aus Leiden.

If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

Water, Loo! water, Loo! fetch me some water! There isn't a drop for a mile and a quarter! The ground is so hard and the ground is so dry I'm frightened my little red rose-bush will die.

Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Wir sein pettler. Hoc est verum.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

Thou, heaven's consummate cup, what needst thou with earth's wheel? But I need, now as then, Thee, God, who mouldest men.

No man has seen her, this pitiful ghost, And no woman either, but heard her at most, Sighing and tapping and sighing again, You have weaned me too soon, you must nurse me again.

'Are you not thirsty?' said the Lion. 'I am dying of thirst,' said Jill. 'Then drink,' said the Lion. 'May I - could I - would you mind going away while I do?' said Jill. The Lion answered this only by a look and a very low growl. And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience. The delicious rippling noise of the stream was driving her nearly frantic. 'Will you promise not to - do anything to me, if I do come?' said Jill. 'I make no promise,' said the Lion. Jill was so thirsty now that, without noticing it, she had come a step nearer. 'Do you eat girls?' she said. 'I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms,' said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it. 'I daren't come and drink,' said Jill. 'Then you will die of thirst,' said the Lion. 'Oh dear!' said Jill, coming another step nearer. 'I suppose I must go and look for another stream then.' 'There is no other stream,' said the Lion.