Quotes about need
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“If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.”

Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Understanding, Nature

“Are you staring at me because you've seen my doppelganger roaming the halls, playing kind of the cafeteria? Or because you need to borrow a pencil and you're too shy to ask?”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: Fated

“When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

Perfection

“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

"Sisterhood" in New York Magazine (20 December 1971), p. 49

Nature

“Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Music, Sleep, Time

“All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

Guy, Chance

“We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Beauty

“He shrugged. "The same as any other. It's a way to make people feel better about themselves. Everyone likes feeling special. Being part of an elite group is a way to do that."
"But you weren't part of it?"
"No need. I already know I'm special.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

People, Way, Feeling, Parting

“You fuss too much over making the "right" choice Gaius. All we need do is make a good choice, see it through, and accept the consequences.”

Graham McNeill (1971) writer

Source: Fulgrim

“In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Dreams, Reality, Hurt

“Right, well, we've got to work out what we need. We've got to work out what we need, how we get it, and what we need to get to get what we need.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.”

Wally Lamb (1950) american novelist

Source: The Hour I First Believed

Freedom

“If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

World

“You'll call me Damon. I see no need for dramatic titles. I, on the other hand will call you beautiful, lover, mine. I'll call you mine." (Damon to Serena)”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Sweet Persuasion

Beauty, Lovers

“Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.”

Rebecca Stead book When You Reach Me

Source: When You Reach Me

Love

“Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

Friendship, People

“She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.”

Charles Frazier (1950) American writer

Source: Nightwoods

Books, Reading

“You do not need to work to become spiritual. Youspiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)”

Julia Cameron (1948) American writer

Source: God is No Laughing Matter

God

“Hey, you’re lucky. My cabin is closest to the stables. I can hear her yelling all night: FIRST PLACE OR DEATH! AN A MINUS IS A FAILING GRADE! Leo really needs to design a gag that’s better than my old sock.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Death, Night

“The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

Life

“Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings… if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.”

Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels

Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Books, Imagination, Reading, Parting

“I'd had years of practise looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn't know. It's a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don't see the need. It's easier just to have folks explain stuff.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

Variant: Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don’t see the need. It’s easier just to have folks explain stuff.
Source: The Demigod Diaries

People, Books, Reading

“right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Music, Cars

“Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Feeling

“There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.”

Nicole Krauss book Great House

Source: Great House

Time

“You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Life, Faith

“Things are always given to us when we need them… You just have to decide if you're strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and make it
yours. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

Strong

“It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Forgetting

“Sorry we’re late,” Jason said. “Is this the guy who needs killing?”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Guy

“Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall

Life, Secret, Past, Future

“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.”

J.M. Coetzee book Disgrace

Source: Disgrace (1999), p. 3-4
Context: Although he devoted hours of each day to his new discipline, he finds its first premise, as enunciated in the Communications 101 handbook, preposterous: 'Human society has created language in order that we may communicate our thoughts, feelings, and intentions to each other.' His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

Lie, Soul

“The letter I received said you had need of my particular talents, but I must confess that I have so many talents that I am not sure which one you require.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.”

Kamila Shamsie (1973) Pakistani writer

Source: Kartography

Friendship, Thinking

“You don't always need proof to know something.”

Patti Callahan Henry American writer

Source: Between The Tides

“You attract what you need like a lover”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

Lovers

“Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

God, Thinking, Parent, Family

“You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything”

Gustave Flaubert book November

Source: November

Love, Heart

“That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.”

Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

Boy

“You’re not alone, and you’re not the one in charge,” Mother said gently. “Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can. I think that is how we serve God—and each other and ourselves—in times as dark as these.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

God, Thinking, Time, Help

“Because, you see, you only need one friend for a party. One is enough. Two is enough. Anything is enough.”

Ann M. Martin A Corner of the Universe

Source: A Corner of the Universe, ~pg 107; Adam on friendship

Friendship

“Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.”

Alexandra Ripley (1934–2004) American writer

Thinking

“There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.”

Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician

World

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not.”

Augusten Burroughs book A Wolf at the Table

Source: A Wolf at the Table

God, Feeling, Thinking, Strong

“Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.”

Marvin J. Ashton (1915–1994) Apostle of the LDS Church

Love, Family, Disappointment, Time

“Phury?"
"No, I'm not gay."
"Don't feel like you need to hide it or anything."
"I wouldn't. I'm just not."
"You bi, then?”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

Feeling

“Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.”

Roger Zelazny Knight of Shadows

Source: Knight of Shadows

Life, Pleasure, Sleep

“People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

People, Fear

“Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Girl

“I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Stupidity, Feeling, Clothes

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

Love, Hope, Sex

“Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.”
“How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

People, Animals

“I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Life, People, Feeling, Heart

“One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Time

“God knows better than we do what we need.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

God

“I'm going away," he said. "And I want you to know that I'm coming back. I love you because…."

"Don't say anything," Fatima interrupted. "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Love

“I was getting depressed. My life wasn't going anywhere. I needed something, the flashing of lights, glamour, some damn thing. And here I was, talking to the dead. I finished my first drink. The second was ready.”

Charles Bukowski book Pulp

Source: Pulp

Life, Drink, Light, Dead

“To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

Beloved (1987)

Love, Freedom

“Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve dealt out? There’s no profit in it, no point to it, and you need sleep.”

Charlaine Harris Dead and Gone

Source: Dead and Gone

Hate, Thinking, Sleep, Hurt

“The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.”

Robert Penn Warren book All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

People

“… And we pray, not for new
earth or heaven, but to be quiet
in heart, and in eye clear.
What we need is here.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Heart

“Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.”

Tarjei Vesaas book The Boat in the Evening

Source: The Boat in the Evening

“We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.”

Noam Chomsky book 9-11

Source: 9-11

“We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.”

Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)

“It was like Percy had faced death before, like he knew about grief. What mattered was listening. You didn’t need to say you were sorry. The only thing that helped was moving on—moving forward.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Death, Help

“It’s just a mild disagreement, Papa. Remi has this whole need to breathe in and out, which annoys me. If he would just stop breathing, I’d be fine. (Aimee)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

“It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.”

Meg Cabot The Princess Diaries

Source: The Princess Diaries

Life, Imagination

“When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.”

John Irving book Until I Find You

Source: Until I Find You

“Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.”

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"

Intelligence

“It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Idea

“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.”

Barbara Kingsolver Pigs in Heaven

Source: Pigs in Heaven

For Mother

“If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Sadness, Fear, Tear

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

To Varro, in Ad Familiares IX, 4

“Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?”

Andy Stanley (1958) American Christian minister

Source: Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You

Life, People, Question

“I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

Source: Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?

“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

Life, Feeling, Thinking

“To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man."”

U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007) Indian philosopher

Part 2: The Mystique of Enlightenment
The Mystique of Enlightenment (1982)
Source: The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U.G. Krishnamurti

Way, Intelligence, Nature