Top 100 Love Demand Quotes
#2. Relationships based on undirected love ... demand a personal ethical obligation to the other, and that extends outward, politically, to the broader society.
Rod Dubey
#3. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
Anthony De Mello
#4. God set the standard for giving love that demands nothing in return.
Bill Johnson
#5. Life is always a series of encounters that demand you prove your love.
Shannon L. Alder
#6. I demand my kids be respectful, responsible and grateful. And they have to love the Lord with all their hearts.
Mariano Rivera
#7. I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.
Tomaz Salamun
#8. It is an irony that the more possessive you are, the more love you demand, the less you receive, while the more freedom you give, the less you demand, the more love you will receive.
Harold H. Bloomfield
#9. Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the next step.
Anna White
#10. Philosophy demands knowledge, ignorance demands happiness, love demands both.
Bruce Crown
#11. My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
Hermann Hesse
#14. Everything began all over again immediately: arrival of manuscripts, requests, people's stories, each person mercilessly pushing ahead his own little demand (for love, for gratitude): No sooner has she departed than the world deafens me with its continuance.
Roland Barthes
#15. We are faithful as long as we love, but you
demand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving of
herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there
woman or man?
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#16. I'm really proud of an independent movie called 'Angel's Perch' that you can get now on demand. It's a labor of love. People worked really, really hard, and it's a beautiful film.
Ashley Jones
#18. Faith is not limited to affirming the existence of God. No, faith tells us that God loves us and demands a loving response. This response is given through love for human beings, and that is what we mean by a commitment to God and to our neighbor.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#19. If God were not just, there would be no demand for his Son to suffer and die. And if God were not loving, there would be no willingness for his Son to suffer and die. But God is both just and loving. Therefore his love is willing to meet the demands of his justice.
John Piper
#20. Instinct seeks satisfaction. Love is free of all demands.
Tito Colliander
#21. I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.
Emma Goldman
#22. The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long as man continues to condemn the biological demand for natural sexual gratification.
Wilhelm Reich
#23. It was true, Ben at age two was an astonishing thing. He'd demand love outright, grab at a breast or an arm, but as soon as he had enough affection, and that came quickly, he'd go completely limp, play dead until you let him go.
Gillian Flynn
#24. I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.
Steve Cropper
#25. Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.
Bernard Lonergan
#26. Love is always freely given. Love cannot be demanded. We can request things of each other, but we must never demand anything. Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.
Gary Chapman
#27. If someone is ill, bless them and send them love and peace, don't demand that they get well.
Louise L. Hay
#28. Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.
C.S. Lewis
#29. As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam Smith
#30. One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives.
Oscar Romero
#31. The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze.
Dimitra Ekmektsis
#33. Don't hide love. If you feel it, express it-not to demand that others love you back, but simply to live outwardly the best of what you feel inwardly. The worst that can happen to your heart is not rejection by another person but failure to act on the love you feel.
Martha Beck
#34. The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.
Man Ray
#35. You could never demand intimacy -- you could only volunteer it.
Elizabeth A. Lynn
#36. The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye ... Love is as much its demand, as perception. Indeed neither can be perfect without the other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. 'Hate' is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful.
Meir Soloveichik
#38. If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.
Henry David Thoreau
#39. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little. And you can trust them.
Olivia Newton-John
#40. Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.
Audre Lorde
#41. Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self-image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them.
Tyler Cowen
#42. Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon I hate having my picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then demand a picture of you?
Ogden Nash
#43. Precious souls are at high stakes when this world turns over with feet that quake. The timeless hearts of souls that make, beautiful music at no mistake. Peace love and light too all who demand, and together forever in on this earth we we will stand.
Peace Gypsy
#44. The ordinary love is a demand, the real love is a sharing. It knows nothing of demand; it knows the joy of giving.
Osho
#45. I see love as a force of nature. No matter how much you want to, you cannot control or demand love. No one can. It cannot be bought, bartered, or sold. It is priceless.
Anna Agoncillo
#46. People don't demand that a thing be reasonable if their emotions are touched. Lovers aren't reasonable, are they?
Graham Greene
#48. What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love.
Emma Goldman
#49. To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
Margaret Mead
#50. Love makes requests, not demands. When I demand things from my spouse, I become a parent and she the child.
Gary Chapman
#52. Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.
Osho
#53. I think I have always liked my fellow men. Liking is a great deal safer than love. It doesn't demand victims. Who is your victim, Querry?
Graham Greene
#54. So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
Felicity Kendal
#55. To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
Tom Peters
#56. What I want, it is my ego's demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that.
Debasish Mridha
#57. The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.
Joseph Campbell
#58. How we all love extreme cases and apocalypses, fires, drownings, stranglings, and the rest of it. The bigger our mild, basically ethical, safe middle classes grow the more radical excitement is in demand. Mild or moderate truthfulness or accuracy seems to have no pull at all.
Saul Bellow
#59. Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.
Albert Schweitzer
#60. It is a very difficult secret to understand that when we do not want to possess another selfishly, he or she will always love us. It is when we do not want to possess, when we do not make demand after demand, that the relationship will last.
Eknath Easwaran
#61. As so many commitments
demand your time
Or your shut-eye important be,
Your attraction to me must
in some way lack,
Such a pity to spend time
on thee.
Charlotte M. Liebel
#62. Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.
Thomas Moore
#63. Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#64. In my work, I see couples who no longer wait for an invitation into their partner's interiority, but instead demand admittance, as if they are entitled to unrestricted access into the private thoughts of their loved ones
Esther Perel
#65. We can request love, but we cannot demand love.
Gary Chapman
#66. We all have a grain of god in us. We do get opportunities to realize it, when moments in life demand selfless deeds of compassion from us. But we often squander them.
Ashok Kallarakkal
#67. I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.
Olivia Newton-John
#68. Love simply is - it asks no permissions. Acceptance is all love asks, the only demand it makes, but it is an absolute one. You can either admit it to your heart or refuse it, but there's no other option.
Stephanie Laurens
#69. Saying "I love you" makes a demand, but creates no obligations.
Mason Cooley
#70. God's love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it given that it creates freedom in the recipient, so that our response is not one of obligation or duty, nor the returning of a favor, but uncoerced love.
Mark Galli
#71. If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a "weakness" or an "absurdity": it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
Roland Barthes
#72. My husband says this longing for isolation is not a good quality, that if I wanted to be a hermit I should have moved to the West Coast and adopted a lot of cats, not gotten married and had children that demand to be fed several times a day.
Anna White
#73. While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
Friedrich Schiller
#74. Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.
Tim Lebbon
#75. A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan
Idries Shah
#76. Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
Confucius
#77. Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands.
Mason Cooley
#78. Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand - when you're loved, someone wants more of you.
Stephen Grosz
#79. Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.
Romain Rolland
#80. To Have An Undying Hunger For God Is To Continually Proclaim His Demands Of Love
Sunday Adelaja
#81. The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something within them which demands expression ... Only a few truly love it.
Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
#82. I'd have devoured those books I've come to love - the ones that have helped me reawaken my sexuality. The books that have made me realize it's okay to want more out of my sex life, to want my husband to push the envelope with me. Experiment with me. Demand more of me.
C.D. Reiss
#83. Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
#84. I love going to movie theaters, even in the era of movies on-demand and Netflix. When you are in a movie theater, no one can reach you by phone or other means.
Denise Duhamel
#85. She had no experience of crushing on someone like that. She hadn't realized before how frightening it was to look a dream in the face. To realize how much it could change you live, and how much it could demand of you.
Jillian Hart
#86. People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement.
Wilhelm Reich
#87. Life taught me an eternal love will demand the worst sacrifices. A transcendent love will split your soul, cleaving you into pieces. A love this strong doesn't grant you sweetness - it grants you pain. And in that pain is the greatest pleasure of all.
Anonymous
#88. Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#90. So the second thing to remember is never to demand perfection. You have no right to demand anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, be thankful, but don't demand anything - because the other has no obligation to love you.
Osho
#91. Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.
Oliver Sacks
#92. True love doesn't demand..It only loves.
Toba Beta
#93. Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
Honore De Balzac
#94. Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.
Jerry Saltz
#95. Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.
Sivananda
#96. You cannot find love or demand love. You can only give it away and keep your window open so that love can come in.
Debasish Mridha
#97. You can demand that I accept who you are, You cannot demand that I should like you too.
Srividya Srinivasan
#98. The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.
Max Frisch
#99. The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Emma Goldman
#100. Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
