Quotes about need
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“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”

Source: This Lullaby

“The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Strong

“If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when…. hard things happen.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Love, Joy

“They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

Age, Siblings

“I need to be silent for a while, worlds are forming in my heart.”

Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian

World, Heart

“So softly Lizzy has to lean over to hear me, I say, 'I can't face the world until I know why I'm here.'
You're kidding me.'
I shake my head vehemently. 'No. I need to figure out my purpose. Until I do, what's the use of getting up?”

Wendy Mass Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

World

“An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

People, Idea, Thinking

“Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.”

Richard Russo book Straight Man

Source: Straight Man

Children, Parent

“I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.”
“Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Alloy of Law

Thinking, Help

“… the second time you see something is really thetime. You need to know how it ends before you can appreciate how beautifully it's put together from the beginning.”

David Gilmour (1946) guitarist, singer, best known as a member of Pink Floyd

Source: The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

Time

“Brian Andreas Promise #1:
Promises to Myself #1: I will tell the truth unless I get confused & I think I could get in real trouble if someone found out, in which case, I will lie as convincingly as possible for as long as I feel the need.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Truth, Lie, Feeling, Thinking

“I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Happiness, Thinking, Funny

“We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

Fear, Question, Time

“Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody's. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Truth, Beauty, Memory, Hurt

“My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Source: Dickinson: Poems

Life, Hell, Parting

“As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

Source: The Marquis of Lossie

Books

“You'll need to suffer to make any real art.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

Art, Suffering

“What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

People

“I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist

Life, Happiness

“When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

Sadness

“You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”

Carlos Castaneda book Journey to Ixtlan

Variant: You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.
Source: Journey to Ixtlan

Life, Help

“Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Women

“Don't you have somewhere you need to be?" she gritted. "The kitchen? The sewers? The fires of hell?”

Alexandra Ivy (1961) American novelist

Source: When Darkness Comes

Hell

“Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

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

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 52

Love, People, Success

“Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble,
His brain is just not in the pink,
His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double,
Because everyone needs him to think.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Thinking

“If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

Lying, Thinking

“I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Variant: What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe ittake a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
Source: Handle with Care

Life, Art

“If you crave something, I’ll be
the one to give it to you. All of your needs, Eva,
are mine to fulfill. Whatever it costs me.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

“God, I needed you," he murmured. "I can't even tell you how many times I thought about this. The funny thing is, I don't need you any less now. I think I need you more."
~Shane~”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Carpe Corpus

God, Thinking, Time

“I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.”

Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989) English novelist

God, Religion

“Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Men, Mood

“A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

Marriage, Partnership

“We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

“Piper!” Frank yelled. “Counter those empousai! We need some chaos.”

“Thought you’d never ask.” She started catcalling at the female demons: “Your makeup is smeared! Your friend called you ugly! That one is making a face behind your back!”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“Look to your heart
that flutters in and out like a moth.
God is not indifferent to your need.
You have a thousand prayers
but God has one.”

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

God, Heart, Indifference

“I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Smile, Soul, Help

“We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Happiness

“I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.
"You're like a potato!" I shouted after her. "In a minefield.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Firefight

“A library doesn’t need windows, Andrew. We have books, which are windows into worlds we never even dreamed possible.”

Chris Grabenstein book Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Source: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Books, World, Dreams

“We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.”

Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist

World, Reading

“You're gonna need a bigger boat.”

Peter Benchley (1940–2006) American author and screenwriter

“There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

Children, Parent

“If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.”

Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer

“You seek problems because you need their gifts.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Problem, Happy

“You are the best person I've met in years, and if I'd met you in a year's time, or maybe even a few months, I know we could be happy together, but I can't give you what you need.”

Jane Green (1968) British writer

Source: Mr. Maybe

Happiness, Time, Personality

“At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right”

Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher

Lie, Time

“The truth needs so little rehearsal.”

Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist

Truth

“Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd. Courage moral and physical: “anima”—the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

Courage, Thinking, Sense

“I decided the Alchemists needed an entire department devoted to handling Adrian Ivashkov.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

“Magnus placed an order with the room service, who had by now stopped questioning Mr. Bane's unusual needs for things like twenty-four plates of scrambled eggs and “”.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

Question

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”

Nicholson Baker (1957) Novelist, essayist, non-fiction writer

Books

“Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

Source: The Collected Stories

Dreams

“My imagination needs therapy.”

Jim Butcher book Skin Game

Source: Skin Game

Imagination

“Everyone needs help. That's the human condition.”

Max Allan Collins (1948) writer

Source: Jump Cut

Help

“Everything in the world needs kindness, child. [Ryssa]”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

World

“Remembering is just an invention of the mind… It means that if you want to, you can remember anything, whether it happened or not… You don't need a time machine if you can remember.”

Rodman Philbrick book Freak the Mighty

Source: Freak the Mighty

Time

“We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts. Perhaps that is all you need to know.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Beauty

“No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought?
--Poirot”

Agatha Christie book One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Source: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Beauty

“But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.”

Ilsa J. Bick (1957) American writer

Source: Ashes

Learning

“Gin a body meet a body
Coming thro' the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body—
Need a body cry?”

Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist

Kiss, Cry

“People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.”

Miep Gies (1909–2010) Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank

People, Thinking, Help, Personality

“Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: Sweethearts

Life, Time, Speed

“The love in his eyes was so powerful, I needed to look away. Seth had an amazing grasp of the English language, but there were days when that skill was nothing compared to what he told me in his looks.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Dreams

Love

“One does not need the size of a dragon to have the soul of a dragon.”

Robin Hobb book Ship of Destiny

Source: Ship of Destiny

Soul

“… the worst aspect of our time is prejudice… In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.”

Rod Serling (1924–1975) American screenwriter

Ellen Cameron May, "Serling in Creative Mainstream" (profile/interview), Los Angeles Times (June 25, 1967), page C22-23.
Other
Context: I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Time

“He must feel that you choose to be with him, not that you need to be with him.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Feeling

“We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.”

Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian

"The Old Way of Thinking" http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/Old_Way_Thinking.html, in The Progressive (November 2001)

War, Children, Time

“Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.”

Jennifer Donnelly (1963) American writer

Source: The Winter Rose

“… I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

Life, Way

“If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior… you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

People, Behavior, Communication, Change

“I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

Secret

“Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.”

Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer

Source: On Work And Money

“Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

“Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

Life

“Kate," Lucern interrupted.
"What?" she asked warily.
"I do not need blood." He tugged her off balance and into his lap. "All I need is you.”

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer

Source: Single White Vampire

“I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Life, Tear, Cry

“I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.”

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

Thinking

“Well, yes, I call it the Expando-Duck. It's perfect if you need a small metal duck. Or a larger metal duck.”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

Perfection

“Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,…”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

Faith, Change

“I need a bodyguard."
Simon eyed him. "Have you been watching The Bodyguard? Because I am not going to fall in love with you and carry you around in my burly arms.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Love

“We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse--we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse.”

Joel Salatin (1957) American environmentalist

Law

“That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Cars

“An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Variant: See, this was his kind of decorating. An active mind don't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers
Source: Lover Unbound

Books