Not Desperate For Love Quotes

#1. We were not desperate for love, we were desperate for each other's love."

The first implies weakness-
the second only heaven

Michael Xavier

#2. Friendship and love don't come to those who are desperate for it,
it comes to those who respect themselves enough not to need it.

Steven Aitchison

#3. Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#4. I'm sentimental
I know. I'm desperate and silly
I know that too. Oh, help me!

Anne Frank

#5. Love seeks out that desperate, lonely, frightened place inside each of us and coaxes it out into the daylight, so that it can eviscerate it in the burning heat of the sun.

Cassondra Windwalker

#6. It wasn't love, not quite, but it was almost there and it was desperate and I didn't know how to put it into words. It was the back and forth of him, the hot and cold, it made me crazy, made me feel crazy, and sanity never felt more pointless than when I was with him.

Kristine Wyllys

#7. Sex is an attachment behavior, reinforcing the social bond between adults. Sometimes it takes the form of passionate, joyful sex between people who are falling in love with each other. Sometimes it takes the form of desperate, grasping sex between people whose attachment is threatened.

Emily Nagoski

#8. The problem here, Gwen, is that the more desperate you are to achieve financial success and the tighter you hold on to what you've got, the greater your chances of losing it. Money's like love in that respect.

Tom Robbins

#9. We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way.

Courtney M. Privett

#10. I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

Lisa Bonet

#11. Had a million things to say and none I knew how. I stepped forward and kissed him, like people kiss at airports, full of love and desperate longing, kisses that must imprint themselves on their recipient for the journey, for the weeks, the months ahead.

Jojo Moyes

#12. Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.

John Darnielle

#13. My love for him was hitting me like a brick and along with it came my insecurities and the desperate need for his love in return. I hoped I hadn't come up for air only to drown again.

Karina Halle

#14. Her belly ruptures full of parasites,
Her eyes sink back in her skull
Her butchered wrists, dangle
From the edge of the bathtub
Her children cuddle against her Desperate for love she cannot give

Wrath James White

#15. I learned much too late
that what you called love
was nothing but a
desperate and irrational
fear of a life lived alone.

Beau Taplin

#16. Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz

#17. I am running after you, and life, in desperate pursuit. My dream is that someday you will both turn and let me catch you. That dream carries me through every night ... I have enclosed a hundred kisses in this letter. You must count them out carefully and not lose any.

Lisa Kleypas

#18. The angrier the man, the more desperate his love.

Sally MacKenzie

#19. The Universal Consciousness's feeling is unqualified love for all of its creatures,no matter how foolish and desperate they act.

David V. Gaggin

#20. Love can sometimes rise up like a desperate cry from a neglected part of oneself which takes a long view but which is submerged by the presence of strident wants.

John Armstrong

#21. He clutched her to him with a desperate strength that almost hurt. "I will love you for your light, if you can love me through the dark times. And that love will be like the clear night sky when the moon is full. Not like the sun....but beautiful and bright enough to find our way.

Kerrigan Byrne

#22. His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me.

Freya North

#23. An actor in a playwright's hide," he said sadly. "I'll never not be vain." "Oh, well. It's you," she said. "You're desperate for the love of strangers. To be seen." "You see me," he said, and he heard the echo with his thoughts a minute before and was pleased. "I do," she said. "Now.

Lauren Groff

#24. If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

Jasmine Guy

#25. There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take
it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#26. We are all searching for love, some at the bottom of a bottle, some at the casino, some in the eyes of a new lover. The more we search outside ourselves, we more desperate we become. We suffer not because love's unavailable, but because we are not looking in the right place.

Vironika Tugaleva

#27. I was sorry that I'd told him, but I had no defenses anymore. I could not lie, even for the best of reasons; there was simply no place to go, nowhere to hide. I felt beset by whispering ghosts, their loss, their need, their desperate love pulling me apart. Apart from Jamie, apart from myself.

Diana Gabaldon

#28. Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.

Suzanne Collins

#29. Sex was the main component of her thoughts now. But love - and her desperate longing for it - had vanished from her heart like a migraine after a painkiller.

Augustine Sam

#30. Powerlessness is dangerous. For most of us, the inability to affect change is a desperate feeling. We need resilience and hope and a spirit that can carry us through the doubt and fear. We need to believe that we can effect change if we want to live and love with our whole hearts.

Brene Brown

#31. So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#32. I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love - well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it. As

Jodi Picoult

#33. As soon as I saw her, I knew I had to stay far away from her. Being with her makes me feel like I've been starving for so long. Sofia has given me a taste of something I didn't know I wanted. Something I am now desperate for. Her.

E.R. Wade

#34. Love happens! I release the desperate need for love, and instead, allow it to find me in the perfect time-space sequence.

Louise Hay

#35. Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.

Peter Heller

#36. I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

#37. Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

Joseph Conrad

#38. Single gals aren't all a bunch of Bridget Joneses, desperate for love.

Anita Hamilton

#39. His kiss was desperate, a night before the gallows kiss.

Kresley Cole

#40. ... how overwhelming the feelings of love and terror, the desperate desire to protect. How much stronger would those feelings be if it were her own child? Perhaps too strong to bear.

Kate Atkinson

#41. The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire ... driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!

Carson McCullers

#42. Intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish of him who has stumbled into a blind alley.

Julius Evola

#43. Everything had changed.Everything was different. And he was desperate to tell her. Cam knew his life
had turned on its axis yet again. And somehow he'd ended up exactly where he needed to be.
The only thing missing was Anna.

Nora Roberts

#44. And so it was I entered the broken world
To trace the visionary company of love, its voice
An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled)
But not for long to hold each desperate choice.

Hart Crane

#45. If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Andre Breton

#46. Was it possible - was it at all possible that she could come out of her most desperate choice with a man as clever as Odysseus who looked like Achilles and made love like Paris ... ?

Sherry Thomas

#47. We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn't embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love.

Steve Almond

#48. My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.

Tom O'Connor

#49. I'm not sentimental
I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last
the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#50. Young people realize that something is amiss. There's a generation that fell in love with their phones, and it's very hard for them to see that there's a problem. But young people are desperate for the attention of their parents, who are really not paying attention to them.

Judy Woodruff

#51. Love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart.

Terri Cheney

#52. Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

Louise Erdrich