As quoted in The New York Times interview 25 Years Later, Honor for Audrey Hepburn (1991) https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/22/movies/25-years-later-honor-for-audrey-hepburn.html
— Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963
Variante: How we need that security. 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.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
„I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.“
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
— Example (musician) English rapper and singer 1982
"Natural Disaster" (song), with Laidback Luke
Disaster", Official video on YouTube)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q28e-Z9TAdU("Natural
(+ "Natural Disaster", a lyrics version on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Bh297hFrg
Studio albums, Playing in the Shadows (2011)
„Everything terrible is something that needs our love.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke Austrian poet and writer 1875 - 1926
„Children need admiration rather than affection.“
— Celia Green British philosopher 1935
Advice to Clever Children (1981)
„I don't need to pray. I have God in myself.“
— Ashraf Pahlavi Iranian royal 1919 - 2016
In Bitter American Exile, the Shah's Twin Sister, Ashraf, Defends Their Dynasty (1980)
„All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.“
— Sue Monk Kidd, livre The Mermaid Chair
Source: The Mermaid Chair
— Peter F. Drucker American business consultant 1909 - 2005
"New Priorities" Dancing Toward The Future, Context Institute http://www.context.org/, (1992)
1990s and later
„Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.“
— Anaïs Nin, livre Delta of Venus
Source: Delta of Venus
„I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!“
— Elizabeth Gilbert, livre Eat, Pray, Love
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
„I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.“
— Libba Bray, livre The Diviners
Source: The Diviners
„I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.“
— Tim Daly American actor, director and producer 1956
„I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.“
— Cecelia Ahern, livre A Place Called Here
Source: A Place Called Here
— Philip Larkin English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian 1922 - 1985
Letter from Belfast ( 5 August 1953) http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.com/2010/10/many-letters-of-philip-larkin.html to Monica Jones
Contexte: You know I don’t care at all for politics, intelligently. I found that at school when we argued all we did was repeat the stuff we had, respectively, learnt from the Worker, the Herald, Peace News, the Right Book Club (that was me, incidentally: I knew these dictators, Marching Spain, I can remember them now) and as they all contradicted each other all we did was get annoyed. I came to the conclusion that an enormous amount of research was needed to form an opinion on anything, & therefore I abandoned politics altogether as a topic of conversation. It’s true that the writers I grew up to admire were either non-political or Left-wing, & that I couldn’t find any Right-wing writer worthy of respect, but of course most of the ones I admired were awful fools or somewhat fakey, so I don’t know if my prejudice for the Left takes its origin there or not. But if you annoy me by speaking your mind in the other interest, it’s not because I feel sacred things are being mocked but because I can’t reply, not (as usual) knowing enough. … By the way, of course I’m terribly conventional, by necessity! Anyone afraid to say boo to a goose is conventional.
