Wanted To Be Loved Quotes

• You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Relationship, Broken Heart

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• I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.615, 谷月社

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• When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Nora Ephron (2011). “When Harry Met Sally. . .”, p.97, Knopf

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• Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  "Winnie-the-Pooh: The House at Pooh Corner". Book by A. A. Milne, 1928.

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• I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Graeme Simsion

  Love, Cute, Romantic

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Heart, Flames

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• I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Romantic, My Love For You, Want

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.113, Macmillan

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• Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.

  Kai Knudsen

  Love, I Miss You, Boyfriend

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• To be simple is the best thing in the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Sweat, Simplicity

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• Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

  James M. Barrie

  Love, Happiness, Broken Heart

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.215, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

  Colin Powell

  Life, Happy Valentines Day, Giving

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• I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

  Shaun White

  Thinking, Guitar, Sweat

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• I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

  John Lennon

  Acceptance, Hands, Being Different

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• I was born in an odd spot and was a very sensitive kid. My feelings could get hurt so easily because I always wanted to be loved, I wanted to be touched, I wanted to touch somebody. I wanted everybody to love me, so I think I was louder than I should have been. I was just trying to get attention. I always felt like I was somebody special, maybe it's because I needed to be somebody special.

  Dolly Parton

  Hurt, Kids, Thinking

  "New Again: Dolly Parton". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.

  Kristin Hannah

  Thinking, Wanted, Known

  Kristin Hannah (2015). “The Nightingale”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Wise, Thinking, Brave

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Confused, Way, Persons

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• 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

  Real, Lying, Thinking

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• I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went through, I finally realized I am love. I carry love.

  Mark Nepo

  Language, Various, My Own

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• She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.

  Kate Morton

  Wells, Wanted

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• I always wanted to be loved.

  Dolly Parton

  Wanted

  "New Again: Dolly Parton". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Bill Clinton was a great politician. Bill Clinton loved a fight. He was willing to fight. But he also wanted to be loved. He wanted to be admired.

  Robert Reich

  Fighting, Bills, Politician

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• Robert wanted to be loved. My brother Tyrion has the same disease. Do you want to be loved, Sansa?” “Everyone wants to be loved.” “I see flowering hasn’t made you any brighter,” said Cersei. “Sansa, permit me to share a bit of womanly wisdom with you on this very special day. Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sweet, Brother, Love Is

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1362, Bantam

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