Terry McMillan Quotes

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.

I think people desperately want to feel love.

I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved.

Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.

I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.

The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.

That concept is quite universal, looking for love.

At the end of the day, we want love, and we want to feel loved.

Everybody understands companionship, wants it, gets it, no matter what it looks like.

All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.

I like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all of the hard work feel worth it. I need someone with me. And I want someone.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.

I have no agenda - just to be loved.

I think people don't want be alone. Ultimately, we want to feel connected. We want to feel like there is someone who actually sees us in the world. That's the big thing: to be seen. How many people actually feel seen?

The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that?

I think people want love in their lives.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.

One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.