Full Idea
Love is the demand to be loved.
Gist of Idea
Love is the demand to be loved
Source
Jean-Paul Sartre (Being and Nothingness [1943], p.488), quoted by Christine Daigle - Jean-Paul Sartre 2.5
Book Reference
Daigle,Christine: 'Jean-Paul Sartre' [Routledge 2010], p.79
A Reaction
Is that all love is? Hard to imagine someone loving another person without hoping that the other person will reciprocate. You need high self-esteem to 'demand' it. Low self-esteem merely hopes for it. He says the other person may feel the same.