Top 100 Quotes About To Be Loved
#1. To be loved without a shred of any reserve is a necessity for me.
Arnold Bennett
#2. Some people you couldn't help but love. You loved them without reservation or fear. You loved them hard and fierce, because they deserved it. They deserved to be loved just as much as you deserved for them to return it.
S.L. Jennings
#3. I want to be loved, honestly and truly loved, for who I am. And I want to love a woman with all my heart for all my life. I want to ache for her mind, for her body, for her companionship.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#4. I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved.
Jewel
#5. One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort of emotion in people. The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price.
Hjalmar Soderberg
#6. Plants need to be loved the right way in order to survive. So do humans. We rely on our parents from birth to love us enough to keep us alive. And if our parents show us the right kind of love, we turn out as better humans overall. But if we're neglected . .
Colleen Hoover
#7. Being user friendly doesn't mean you're going to be loved.
Laura Wiess
#8. The desire to be heard is as deeply seeded as the desire to be loved. For some people, it doesn't matter who's on the other end.
David Levithan
#9. There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
Nicolas Chamfort
#10. To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
#11. It is an unrelenting, passionate, fierce, and growing love that loves for the sake of loving; it loves to love, rather than loves to be loved. It wants nothing from the other but the opportunity to love them better. A
Debra Fileta
#12. Everybody wants to be loved. God already loves you; all you have to do is believe and accept it.
Joyce Meyer
#13. If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.
Jodi Picoult
#15. Beethoven was ugly too, and no woman ever loved him, and he was Beethoven! He didn't need to be loved in order to do what he did. He just needed to love and he did.
Jose Saramago
#16. It's what we all wanted when we were children- to be loved and accepted exactly as we were then, not when we got taller or thinner or prettier ... and we still want it ... but we aren't going to get it from other people until we can get it from ourselves.
Louise L. Hay
#17. There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.
Cassandra Clare
#18. It's our God forsaken right to be loved, loved, loved.
Jason Mraz
#19. One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. If I could have put what I was feeling into words, the words would have been an infant's wail: I don't want to be alone. I want someone to want me. I'm lonely. I'm scared. I need to be loved, to be touched, to be held.
Olivia Laing
#21. People say, it is so special to be loved by someone. How can I say, when I've never been loved.
M.F. Moonzajer
#22. The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved ...
Mother Teresa
#23. Germany was his favorite place to live, he said, because, even as a child, he could tell how much the Germans loved Americans, and it felt great to be loved for his nationality.
Imbolo Mbue
#24. If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid
#25. In another life, Shane, if I was anybody but me, I would have loved to be loved by you.
Christine Zolendz
#26. The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of violence and every affair as well as each organized religion and every method of self-help.
Vironika Tugaleva
#27. What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.
Ella Fitzgerald
#28. I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That's all. That's the real truth.
Michael Jackson
#29. I HAVE TOLD you that a woman is to be loved, not understood.
Osho
#30. The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved.
Jorge Luis Borges
#31. Your heart is so beautiful and someday someone is going to love that heart like it deserves to be loved.
Colleen Hoover
#32. People think I'm strong as hard as I look. But I've a very sensitive side and need to be loved by everyone.
Brigitte Nielsen
#33. Later, much later, as an adult woman, she wrote of her need to be loved, to be desired, as a ravenous monster with an exigent appetite living in a black hole within. Whatever love was thrown her way, the monster devoured it and left her with nothing.
Rabih Alameddine
#34. I want to be loved. Oh, it's SO CORNY, isn't it?! But I just want to be loved by a bloke that loves ME! I want to feel special, you know. I almost feel guilty for feeling it.
Rae Earl
#35. I just stopped from dreaming and woke up,
just like a dream to be loved back is just a dream you have to accept,
it was just glimpse of hopes you wanna take it to reality, nothing more, nothing less
Jinnul Jr.
#36. You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#38. While we [people] keep putting a face on HIV and AIDS, I think what we forget is that there are human beings, just people with emotions and feelings, women who want to be loved, men who want to be loved, who want to feel something.
Queen Latifah
#40. It's important to remember that regardless of what happens during the day, we can go to bed at night and tell ourselves that we are good enough and although we aren't perfect, we still deserve to be loved.
Bibliomaniac
#41. People don't forget what it is to be loved. No matter how young or old you are, or for how long you had it, you always remember what it is to feel loved.
Melinda Salisbury
#42. But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#43. we all need to be loved, and we all need to love.
Sue Townsend
#44. It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.
Cassandra Clare
#45. He wanted to be loved and cherished, yes. But he also wanted to be fucked.
Heidi Cullinan
#46. Much of the time, we cannot control what happens to us. But we can always control how we respond to what happens to us. If we cannot choose to be lucky, to be talented, to be loved, we can choose to be grateful, to be content with who we are and what we have, and to act accordingly.
Harold S. Kushner
#47. The key to this world is to be loved by your fellow man and to be liked by yourself.
JohnA Passaro
#48. I truly thank whoever's up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved.
Javier Bardem
#49. Children are angels.
They are protected by God.
But because God cannot be seen, they feel lonely ...
... so they bid farewell to God ...
... and go to live with people.
They let go of the paradise that protected them ...
... to be loved by the ones they love.
Arina Tanemura
#50. It was so much easier to be loved than to have to do any of the desperate work of loving.
Patrick Ness
#51. To be loved, we have to love ourselves. Only when we love ourselves do we have enough love to give away. By giving love we then receive love.
David Wolfe
#52. What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own sake: because I needed you ... We shall have no need for one another now: we can begin to love truly.
C.S. Lewis
#54. Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
Francis Of Assisi
#55. Nobody deserves a broken heart. Everybody deserves to be loved.
Claudia Gray
#56. No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
Og Mandino
#57. The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.
Franz Wright
#58. Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself
free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on.
Paulo Coelho
#61. To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is a true blessing.
Olivia Newton-John
#62. To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.
Michael Card
#63. Everyone likes to be loved; no one is prepared to love.
M.F. Moonzajer
#64. LOVE ALL SERVE ALL AND THAT'S THE WAY TO BE LOVED BY ALL
Sai Baba
#65. Can you analyze our relationship in the light of Silvermanian pragmatism?" I said.
"I love you because I find it compelling to be loved so entirely. You love me
because as long as you do you can believe in romantic love.
Robert B. Parker
#67. To please God ... to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness ... to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.
C.S. Lewis
#68. Would I trade that in, give it away for the hunt? I stumble down the stairs of a subway. No. I couldn't trade it in again. Not now that I know what it is to be loved. Not now that I've stepped out of the cave and into the sun.
Jackson Pearce
#69. Evie gave birth later that year to a high-spirited girl with flame-colored curls, leading St. Vincent to the conclusion that it was his destiny to be loved by many red-haired women. He was very pleased.
Lisa Kleypas
#70. I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
Patrice O'Neal
#71. Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased.
Alice Dreger
#72. Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
Barbara Johnson
#73. As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.
Mother Teresa
#74. My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.
Arabella Weir
#75. I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance.
Sanhita Baruah
#76. I didn't want to be different.
I wanted to be able to laugh
But I'm sister to an Emperor who's worshiped as a god. People fear me. I never wanted to be feared.
I don't want to be part of history, I just want to be loved ... and to love.
Frank Herbert
#77. It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved.
[Vincent Van Gogh]
Irving Stone
#79. All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.
Norman Wisdom
#80. I'm not in business to be loved, but I am in business.
Robert Towne
#82. When you love something or someone it transforms that thing or person. When you allow yourself to be loved, it transforms you.
Laura Lane
#83. Women must destroy in themselves, the desire to be loved-
Mina Loy
#84. Let us now yearn for the possibility of building a happiness in every heart. Let us now build inward a new world of hope, a world of limitless possibilities for the children of tomorrow, where each soul can reach the heights of their potential to love and to be loved.
Bryant McGill
#85. With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.
Peter Gabriel
#86. How am I supposed to go back? How am I supposed to forget what it was like to be with you? To be loved by you?
Tahereh Mafi
#87. From this arises an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#88. I remember when I was younger and I wanted to be beautiful; now I'm older and I want to be intelligent. I want to burn hearts with brilliance and engulf souls with compassion. I want to be loved for my thoughts and nothing else.
N.a.
#89. Love yourself too much to beg, hold yourself to higher standards than to chase, and value your worth too much to "wait" for someone to love you as you deserve to be loved.
Karlicia Lewis
#90. Every time you look at me, you'll remember that I'm half his."
"No." His hand came to the side of her face, his thumb wiping her tears. "You're all mine." His voice was deep and shaken. "Every hair on your head. Every part of you was made to be loved by me.
Lisa Kleypas
#91. For the male sickness of self-contempt, the surest cure is to be loved by a clever woman
Friedrich Nietzsche
#92. He was kind of like a big puppy dog that just wanted to be loved but tended to hump your leg to get your attention.
Kathleen Brooks
#93. DAN
What do you want?
ALICE
To be loved.
DAN
That simple?
ALICE
It's a big want.
Patrick Marber
#94. A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
Kurt Vonnegut
#95. no one like you
i can't wait for the night with you
i just want to be loved by you
there's no one like you
Scorpions
#96. I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.
Jean Rhys
#97. What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
Jodi Picoult
#99. People often say women want to be loved. But they really want much more. Many women want to bear children; and their very being wants to give children life. She often desires men just as a key to the child that is in her to give life to.
Kahlil Gibran
#100. A family by choice, not chance. A choice to love, and to be loved in return. A choice to take care of and enjoy one another, not to put up with or to suffer through one another.
T.M. Frazier
