„Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.“

„I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.“

—  Jean-Dominique Bauby, книга The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Источник: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

„Women need a reason for having sex, men just need a place“

—  Billy Graham American Christian evangelist 1918 - 2018

„Women need a reason to have sex; men need only a place.“

—  Nelson DeMille, книга Wild Fire

Источник: Wild Fire

„Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.“

—  Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943

Источник: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 122.

„An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond…. a good feeling about his art.“

—  Robert Pinsky American poet, editor, literary critic, academic. 1940

Poetry and the World, Ecco Press,1988

„Men have social needs. They have a need for other people; they have a need to love and be loved.“

—  Carroll Quigley American historian 1910 - 1977

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals" (1976)

„It must be awful to feel you're not needed.“

—  Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945

Источник: The Diary of a Young Girl

„It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.“

—  Jonathan Safran Foer, книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: Everything Is Illuminated

„I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.“

—  Wallace Stevens, книга Harmonium

Источник: Harmonium

„The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.“

—  Jon Ronson, книга So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Источник: So You've Been Publicly Shamed

„You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings“

—  L. S. Lowry British visual artist 1887 - 1976

Interview with Frank & Vicent Tilsley. Lancashire Made them .News Chronicle & Daily Dispatch 1 Dec 1955.
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„Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You couldto explain. With love, apparently you didn’t necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.“

—  Meg Wolitzer, книга The Interestings

Источник: The Interestings

„Everything that men do or think concerns the satisfaction of the needs they feel or the escape from pain.“

—  Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955

Wording in Ideas and Opinions: Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.
1930s, Religion and Science (1930)
Контексте: Everything that men do or think concerns the satisfaction of the needs they feel or the escape from pain. This must be kept in mind when we seek to understand spiritual or intellectual movements and the way in which they develop. For feelings and longings are the motive forces of all human striving and productivity—however nobly these latter may display themselves to us.

„Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.“

—  Paulo Freire educator and philosopher 1921 - 1997

Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

„I was their bar freak, they needed me
to make themselves feel
better.
just like, at times, I needed that
graveyard.“

—  Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

Источник: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

„The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.“

—  Gretchen Rubin American writer 1966

Источник: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

„Frequency of sex – Women sometimes wanted; men always needed.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, книга At First Sight

Источник: At First Sight

„The aim of my work: The study of nature, the love of nature's art, and the need to express what one feels in one's heart.“

—  Émile Gallé French glass artist and cabinetmaker 1846 - 1904

Ecrits pour l'art, ed. Henrietta Galle Paris 1908/Marseille (1980).

„Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.“

—  Ralph Ellison, книга Invisible Man

Epilogue.
Источник: Invisible Man (1952)