Top 100 Quotes About Being Loved
#1. One of the advantages of loving women, of being loved by women: they will always do things far beyond the call of duty
Zadie Smith
#2. Being loved and accepting love are two completely different things. It's my job to continue to show it to you. All you have to do is accept it, little by little.
Tijan
#3. If someone comes to me and says they're not capable of being loved, I want to reach out to them and tell them that everybody's loveable. If a man is forced or wants to become a better man, then I root for him. Everybody needs to be loved.
Aksel Hennie
#4. Being close but feeling far, talking but not being heard, loving but not being loved, that is the painful reality of a dying relationship.
Steve Maraboli
#5. But there was nothing but the cold, hard truth that loving someone and being loved back was only the beginning, not the end, of all the pain.
Tiffany Reisz
#6. I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father.
Kim Wilde
#8. What most people perceive as energy is really strength of spirit. It comes from the joy of knowing God, loving Him, and being loved by Him.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#9. To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside
Jo Nesbo
#10. Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand - when you're loved, someone wants more of you.
Stephen Grosz
#11. Being loved sounds good in the movies, in books, in the memories of people who've survived the rough beginnings of their love. In real life, in the very beginning? It's every deep fear you've ever wanted to avoid all wrapped in the most intense happiness and pleasure you've ever dreamed possible.
Steph Campbell
#12. She had a lifetime of practice at arriving late in a family of four and being loved by all.
Jonathan Franzen
#13. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.
Nick Hornby
#14. Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.
John Dufresne
#15. The desire forcontinuity of being-loved-alone seems to me "the error bred in the bone" of man. For "there is no one-and-only, as a friend of mine once said in a similar discussion, "there are just one-and-only moments.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#16. He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.
Timothy Findley
#17. And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
Carson McCullers
#18. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
Timothy Keller
#19. The grudge was fundamental. Perhaps he could not have given it up if he tried. Perhaps he got more satisfaction out of feeling himself abused that he would have got out of being loved.
Willa Cather
#20. It's lovely loving, isn't it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes embarrasses me, but loving is a gift.
Sheila Hancock
#21. Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved.
Hjalmar Soderberg
#22. Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.
Marianne Williamson
#23. For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.
Albert Camus
#24. People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being used.
John Green
#25. The thrill of falling in love is often the thrill of being loved; the thrill of marriage is the thrill of loving someone for the rest of your life. Each day - and year - that passes is a triumph of this act of loving.
Susan Waggoner
#26. But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know
The first cut is the deepest.
Cat Stevens
#27. It occurred to Michael that this was the great perk of being loved: someone to wait for you, someone to tell you that it will get easier up ahead. Even when it might not be true.
Armistead Maupin
#28. All the rest, besides my loving and being loved, has no importance whatsoever.
Mikhail Shishkin
#29. And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.
Chris Christie
#30. There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.
Anne Sewitsky
#32. The man who can be contented to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no mind has lost in voluptuous gratifications a taste for more refined pleasures; he has never felt the calm and refreshing satisfaction ... of being loved by someone who could understand him.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#33. The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#34. A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
Aristotle.
#35. How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved
Sigmund Freud
#37. Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.
Tom Robbins
#38. Everything he's done, everything he gave up and risked for me: Paul did all that without the slightest idea of being loved in return.
Claudia Gray
#39. I'd never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and have the possibility to love.
Audrey Hepburn
#40. Loving is giving and being loved is receiving. Loving should not depend on being loved, but to all intents and
purposes, your commitment in a relationship is grossly expressed by how much of yourself you share with your partner.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#41. Few of us know the experience of being loved for being just who we are.
Peter Scazzero
#42. I said Matt was too perfect. I was tired of trying to love him, tired of the burden of being loved. How could anyone live with all that devotion and understanding? The scale was tilted so far in my favor it felt like an unbearable weight, a fortune I was compelled to squander.
James Whitfield Thomson
#43. Being enabled, like being loved, is one of the marvels of the world's benevolence. It is to be given wings.
Renee Askins
#44. How can one know when he is stabilized in love? First, he is able to pour out his love upon others without demanding reciprocation. He can love without being loved. Second, he can meet recurrences of rejection with forgiveness. He will not react wrongly by anger, resentment or self-pity. Be
Frank Hammond
#45. The secret to being loved is to let yourself be loved.
Marty Rubin
#46. It made no difference. Just to be in love
seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but true happiness.
Dodie Smith
#47. You cannot experience the fullness of your authentic self or life when you live to avoid hurt. You will never know the joy of love or the peaceful satisfaction of being loved if you hide from hurt.
Iyanla Vanzant
#49. It is almost another kind of love, being loved. It is the same heat but from another room; it is the same sound but from a high window ...
Andrew Sean Greer
#50. For in her stead. It's not the same, of course. But it's better to love others than to sit miserable without loving or being loved in return.
Rose Gordon
#51. No wonder she was so underweight. She was desperate to please a woman that could never be pleased, in the hopes of being loved and accepted by the very person that should be giving that freely.
Rose Wynters
#52. The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love.
Kenneth Oppel
#53. As a kid, I loved being loved, and still do. Who doesn't love being loved?
Sandra Bernhard
#54. There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.
Albert Camus
#55. The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.
Joseph Addison
#56. There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
Giovanna Fletcher
#57. My favorite body part is my heart. Nothing beats loving and being loved.
Elle Macpherson
#58. The damage done through abuse is awful and heinous, but minor compared to the dynamics that distort the victim's relationship with God and rob her of the joy of loving and being loved by others.
Dan B. Allender
#59. Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.
Thornton Wilder
#60. The three most important lessons I have learned in my life: First, no-thing is more valuable or important in life than being loved and loving others. Second, the lessons in life never end and it's up to us whether or not we learn from them. Third, life goes on ...
James A. Murphy
#61. So it had something to do with the sinner, and something with the judge, and the fear of not being forgiven, and the relief of being loved again.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#62. In the choice between being loved and being honest, most of us choose the former. But
The School Of Life
#64. But when considered from the unique perspective of eternity, fame and popularity aren't nearly as important as loving and being loved; status doesn't mean much when compared to service; and acquiring spiritual knowledge is infinitely more meaningful than acquiring an excess of wealth.
M. Russell Ballard
#65. Maybe being loved wasn't enough; maybe there was something else you needed not to get in trouble.
Walter Dean Myers
#66. Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving
Paul David Tripp
#67. Old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.
M.F.K. Fisher
#68. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless.
Lee Kuan Yew
#69. When my mother died and left me all alone, I began to realize that some things, like being loved, were more important than one's image, money, and accomplishments.
J. Matthew Nespoli
#71. Real Womanhood isn't a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
Ann Voskamp
#72. To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Kallypso Masters
#73. Find someone at last someone find you at last live together glued together love each other a little without being loved be loved a little without loving answer that leave it vague leave it dark
Samuel Beckett
#74. That loving and being loved by Jesus matters more than all that the world can obtain or contain.
Beth Moore
#75. Being loved is the most God awful thing I have ever had to live through and I have lived through hell.
A. Giannoccaro
#76. Maybe," thought Francie, "she doesn't love me as much as she loves Neeley. But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved.
Betty Smith
#77. A lot of people say the worst feeling in the world is not being loved, when really it's when someone loves you and you can't love them back.
Erin Mack Smith
#78. Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return
that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.
Dodie Smith
#79. The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.
Theophile Gautier
#80. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.
Haruki Murakami
#81. [P]erhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return
that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.
Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
#82. The simplest things in life are what makes us happy eventually. A warm and comfy home, being loved, and knowing that somebody can't live without you
Ika Natassa
#83. Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worthwhile - husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between ease and rich unrest.
Vera Brittain
#84. Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved. All artists need love - from the audience, friends and relatives. But true and faithful friends are exceptionally rare.
Mireille Mathieu
#85. greatly. If you have no intention of loving or being loved, then the whole journey is pointless.
Kate DiCamillo
#86. There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.
Charles Morgan
#87. Some people aren't hard to love; they're just bad at being loved.
Evan Tyler
#88. The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved
Princess Diana
#89. Don't be embarrassed about being loved. I'm not asking you for anything; just let me love you and play the piano again tonight, just once more, if I still have the strength to do it. In exchange I ask only one thing: If you hear anyone say that I'm dying, go straight to my ward. Let me have my wish.
Paulo Coelho
#90. Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.
Simon Van Booy
#91. Low, a guy doesn't fall in love with you and have you love him back then just throw it away. You're too special. After being loved by you, he can't completely forget. He's haunted by it. I'd bet my life on it. -Cage York
Abbi Glines
#92. I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further and further. Best of all, mine has been a life of loving and being loved. What a tragedy that all this will disappear with the used-up body!
Richard Goldschmidt
#93. Love is the greatest medicine. I ask to be healing medicine for others. I ask my heart to expand its boundaries and to love others as they wish to be loved. I ask my heart to expand its boundaries and open to my being loved as I wish to be loved.
Julia Cameron
#94. Perhaps being hated in the right way is preferable to being loved in the wrong one.
Dov Davidoff
#96. The mystic possesses his or her knowledge of God not from books or academic study, but from experience, from the experience of being loved intimately, intensely, by God.
William Harmless
#97. For happiness, he told himself, isn't being loved; that was just a slightly nauseous satisfaction of vanity. Happiness is loving and perhaps seizing a few short illusory moments of intimacy with the object of one's love.
Thomas Mann
#98. Jimmy: The injustice of it is almost perfect! The wrong people going
hungry, the wrong people being loved, the wrong people dying!
John Osborne
#99. Once someone loves you that much, loves you more than you deserve, you can't go back to being loved the normal way.
Tiffany Reisz
#100. But there was nothing more transparent to her than the fear of not being loved, the fear of being unseen, of being ignored.
Laura Esquivel
