“I know you worry about me needing you, but I shouldn't be with you because I need you. I should be with you because I love you.”

“I need you to pray for me; I need you to care for me. I need you to want me to win. I need to know where I'm heading, because I know where I've been.”

50 Cent (1975) American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and television producer

“Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.”

Erich Fromm book The Art of Loving

“You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

“I love you. I worry about you. I wonder whether I tell you enough how I love you and want you and need you and how I am diminished… when you are not with me and how I am multiplied when you are here.”

Pat Frank book Alas, Babylon

“I don't care if my love is requited or not, because being with you and the very thought of you makes me happy. The point I'm trying to make is that you are loved because I love you, Adam. Please, don't do it. Please, don't jump because I need you.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

“Why? It’s because I love you, damn me to hell. Because I’ve always loved you. Because I loved you when you were with John, and I loved you when I was in India, and God only knows I don’t deserve you, but I love you, anyway.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

“Do you love me?
What?
Do you?
I love you. I don't know if I trust you.
Maybe you shouldn't do either.
Maybe I'm the one who should decide!”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“If you’re going to worry about anything, Gideon, it should be me. Because I can’t be rational when it comes to you. I’m crazy about you. Literally. I can’t think about a future without you— it freaks me out.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

“I don't wanna need you because I can't have you.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States