Wanting Love Sayings and Quotes – 50+ Wanting Love Quotes

Wanting Love Quotes and Sayings

  • “If you want to be loved, be lovable.” —Ovid
  • “Stop looking for love and start showing it.” —Paul Pearsall
  • “Next to love is the desire for love.” —Wallace Stevens
  • “If you wished to be loved, love.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • “Don’t look for Love, look for the one looking for Love.” —Rumi
  • “All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.” —Norman Wisdom
  • “I just sought a way to be someone I wasn’t. To be loved.”
  • “In every living thing there is the desire for love.” —D. H. Lawrence
  • “If you want to be loved by everyone, don’t go into politics.” —Teresa Heinz
  • “The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “The road to finding ‘the one’ is paved with a bit of promiscuity.” —Ryan Erickson
  • “All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” —Andre Breton
  • “You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.” —Werner Erhard
  • “I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
  • “Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.” —James M. Barrie
  • “All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.” —Rita Hayworth
  • “Everybody’s looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.” —Jill Scott
  • “If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.” —Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • “I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.” —George Eliot
  • “The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved.” —Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
  • “Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it that you are it.” —Byron Katie
  • “Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.” —Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • “Instead of looking for love, let it happen by being the best you that you can be.” —Marshall Sylver
  • “There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.” —Nicolas Chamfort
  • “Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.” —Theodor Reik
  • “Finding love is like making crème brulee. It may take a few tries before you get it right.” —Crystal Woods
  • “The moment we set off in search of love, it sets off in search of us. And saves us.” —Paulo Coelho
  • “I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
  • “If you don’t receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.” —Robert Goolrick
  • “Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.” —Mandy Hale
  • “Nothing is in the middle of somewhere, surrounded by everything, where everyone is someplace, and still lacking the someone, I need most.” —Anthony Liccione
  • “In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.” —Charles Baudelaire
  • “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
  • “Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?” —Mary Balogh
  • “We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.” —Byron Katie
  • “The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.” —Rachel Kushner
  • “Be an earth angel, and look for love behind the actions of everyone you meet today. Whenever you look for love, you will always find it.” —Doreen Virtue
  • “The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We’re still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.” —Halle Berry
  • “All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.”
  • “Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own loveless ness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it.”
  • “Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or wellbred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.” —Henri-Frederic Amiel
  • “Everyone needs to be needed, wants to be wanted, and loves to be loved. You are human and you need to be loved just like everything else in this world.” —Unknown
  • “I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God’s love is real.” —Dyan Cannon
  • “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
  • “We are all unconsciously in search of love. Whenever we feel its presence in our environment, we can’t help but be drawn to it. There is no more compelling energy in the world.” —Sonia Choquette
  • “I’ll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.” —LaToya Jackson
  • “The only way to be loved is to be and to appear lovely; to possess and display kindness, benevolence, tenderness; to be free from selfishness and to be alive to the welfare of others.” —John Jay
  • “The quest for Love changes us. There is no seeker among those who search for Love who has not matured on the way. The moment you start looking for Love, you start to change within and without.” —Elif Shafak
  • “Search for love, for it is the most important ingredient of life. Without it, you life will echo emptiness. With it, your life will vibrate with warmth and meaning. Even during any hardship, love will shine through.” —Nikita Koloff
  • “You don’t want to love – your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren’t positive, you’re negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you’ve got a shortage somewhere.” —David Herbert Lawrence