Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

I would say love is something everybody talks about, and the need for love is one of the most basic needs of man, namely the experience of union with another being - of becoming one with another being.

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.

Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

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

The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.

Personally, love is very important for me. There are lots of ordinary things in life, so love should be extraordinary. I hope I achieve that.

Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter.

The desire for romantic love in marriage is deeply rooted in our psychological makeup.

Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.

I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that.

But what doesn't change is that love is something we all crave. Everyone is looking for that touch, that emotion, that feeling. Love makes the mundane matter.

I don't really believe getting into a relationship just for the sake for it. I don't get satisfied by it.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.