“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”

“No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

“Men have social needs. They have a need for other people; they have a need to love and be loved.”

Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) American historian

“Oh! Don't you throw my love away,
I need your loving, I need your loving…”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

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

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“If a product has an advertisement, it means you don't need it. No-one ever has to say 'go to sleep', 'breathe', 'love people.”

Russell Brand (1975) British comedian, actor, and author

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

“If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

“If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

“love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love, with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer