“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

—  Chuck Palahniuk , book Choke

Source: Choke

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up al…" by Chuck Palahniuk?
Chuck Palahniuk photo
Chuck Palahniuk 555
American novelist, essayist 1962

Related quotes

Anne Sexton photo

“Death,
I need my little addiction to you.
need that tiny voice who,
even as I rise from the sea,
all woman, all there,
says kill me, kill me.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

"Letters to Dr. Y."
Words for Dr. Y (1978)

David Bowie photo
Bob Dylan photo

“I think what I need might be a full-length leather coat
Somebody just asked me
If I registered to vote”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Highlands

Stephen Chbosky photo

“I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.”

Variant: If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Donald J. Trump photo

“We need -- we need somebody -- we need somebody that literally will take this country and make it great again. We can do that.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)

Andy Warhol photo

“I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

As quoted in Pop Art, an Critical History, Steven Henry Madoff, Madoff, University of California Press, Berkeley 1997, p. 104
undated quotes

“My creativity is over. Now it is only the question of maintenance. I have empowered the girls to look after themselves. To earn their own money, to be somebody. I need to resuscitate.”

Protima Bedi (1948–1998) Indian model and dancer

When she retired from Nityagram, quoted in "I have been a hippie all my life".

Rachel Cohn photo

“I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Toni Morrison photo

Related topics