60 Quotes About Wanting Love That Will Touch Your Heart

Looking for I want love quotes? We have rounded up the best list of quotes about wanting love (with images and pictures) to express your feelings.

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We all want true love from someone special to us who takes care of us. Just like fairytales from the butterfly feelings to the simple comfort of having someone there when times get rough, love is something we all secretly search for.

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These quotes about wanting love will make you see you are not alone in your search for this beautiful feeling in this world.

Wanting Love Quotes

1. “I do want love. Genuine love.” — Jill Scott

   
2. “If you want to be loved, be lovable.” — Ovid

   

3. “Next to love is the desire for love.” — Wallace Stevens
4. “Stop looking for love and start showing it.” — Paul Pearsall
5. “If you wished to be loved, love.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
6. “Don’t look for Love, look for the one looking for Love.” — Rumi

   

7. “In every living thing there is the desire for love.” — D. H. Lawrence
8. “All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.” — Norman Wisdom
9. “I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.” — George Eliot

   

10. “If you want to be loved by everyone, don’t go into politics.” — Teresa Heinz

Best Quotes About Wanting Love

1. “I want someone who says ‘I love you’ every night and proves it every day.” — Unknown

   

2. “All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” — Andre Breton
3. “At the end of the day, we want love, and we want to feel loved.” — Jon Bellion
4. “The road to finding ‘the one’ is paved with a bit of promiscuity.” — Ryan Erickson
5. “I just sought a way to be someone I wasn’t. To be loved.” — Mark David Chapman
6. “If you want to have love, you have to open your heart and give love.” — Bill Ferguson
7. “Wanting so badly to love and be loved, but being too stubborn and scared to let your guard down.” — Unknown
8. “I’m looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t live without each other love.” — Carrie Bradshaw (Sex and The City)
9. “She didn’t want love. She wanted to be loved and that was entirely different.” — Atticus

   

10. “You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.” — Werner Erhard
11. “All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.” — Rita Hayworth

    

12. “The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
13. “Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.” — James M. Barrie
14. “You left me wanting. And though I gave up waiting…I’ll never stop wishing.” — Ranata Suzuki
15. “If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 Famous Wanting To Be Loved Quotes

1. “The moment we set off in search of love, it sets off in search of us. And saves us.” — Paulo Coelho
2. “Everybody’s looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.” — Jill Scott
3. “I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.” —  Audrey Hepburn
4. “The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved.” — Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
5. “There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.” — Nicolas Chamfort

   

6. “Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.” — Theodor Reik
7. “I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.” — Marilyn Monroe
8. “I try to make people feel loved and wanted because I know what it’s like to not feel loved and wanted.” — Unknown
9. “If you don’t receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.” — Robert Goolrick

   

10. “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
11. “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
12. “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
13. “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
14. “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.” — John Gray
15. “Many people will want you, but not want to love. There is a difference between wanting you and wanting to love you. Choose to be loved and not to be used.” — Unknown

Quotes About Wanting To Be In Love

1. “Instead of looking for love, let it happen by being the best you that you can be.” — Marshall Sylver
2. “Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it that you are it.” — Byron Katie
3. “Finding love is like making creme brulee. It may take a few tries before you get it right.” — Crystal Woods
4. “Struggle of wanting love and commitment when you are born into generation of hookups and one night stands.” — Unknown
5. “Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.” — Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
6. “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
7. “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
8. “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
9. “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
10. “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
11. “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
12. “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.” — D. H. Lawrence
13. “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
14. “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
15. “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
16. “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
17. “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
18. “If you want love you gon’ have to go through the pain. If you want love you gon’ have to learn how to change. If you want trust you gon’ have to give some away. if you want love, if you want love.” — NF, Song: If You Want Love
19. “Search for love, for it is the most important ingredient of life. Without it, your life will echo emptiness. With it, your life will vibrate with warmth and meaning. Even during any hardship, love will shine through.” — Nikita Koloff
20. “You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when it’s right it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and it’s good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.” — Keith Sweat
21. “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

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