Logo
Quote by Anaïs Nin
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. – Anaïs Nin

Other quotes by Anaïs Nin

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. – Anaïs Nin

Category:
Feminism
Author
Anaïs Nin
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Miscellaneous
category

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing? – Martin Marty

Category:
Miscellaneous

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. – Rachel Carson

Category:
Miscellaneous

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. – Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyper Reality, 1986

Category:
Miscellaneous

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. – T.S. Eliot

Category:
Miscellaneous

Random Quotes

Experience is not what happens to you its what you do with what happens to you. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
Experience

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. – Henry A. Kissinger

Category:
History

Form follows function. – Louis Sullivan

Category:
architecture

I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way. – Josh Hutcherson

Category:
diet