Being Needed Quotes

“Marvellous blossomed, having quite forgotten what an exciting and necessary jolt being needed gave.”
― Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

“You have an opportunity to help someone, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned in life,” Alvira continued, “it’s better to be needed than wanted. Desire and romantic love pass, leaving little trace. But dependency has an afterglow, the satisfaction of having done something good.”
― Hannah Rothschild, House of Trelawney

“It was never you. It was the feeling. The feeling of being wanted. The feeling of being looked at and feeling seen. The feeling of being someone needed by someone else. And feelings can’t be kept in a cage - if allowed, they do the caging.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“Every person needs to be needed, but being needed takes away from thoughts of yourself. This may sound selfish to your ears, but I do not think it is so. I know I am unable to be needed like others are. I know that my inner world would be jealous.”
― Rumer Godden, Take Three Tenses: A Fugue in Time