Home / Quotes / Quote by Anais Nin

Quote by Anais Nin

“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.”

Quote by Anais Nin

Author

Anais Nin, born on February 21, 1903, in Madrid, Spain, and died on January 14, 1977, in Los Angeles, United States, was a renowned American author. Known for her unique introspective writing and dreamlike narrative style, her works include 'Henry Miller's Desires'. more

You May Also Like

“The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.”

Kind Doe Stills Might Pleasure Environment Violence Offers Normal Machines Reactions Greek Moderation Humane Bicycle Cycling

Author:J. B. Jackson

“The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.”

Men Light Nations Wise Morality Wit Streams Quotations Epigrams Sparkling Concussions

Book:Literature and life, lects

Source: Literature and life, lects

“An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.”

Reason Light Shining Regions Flash Quotations Epigrams

Book:Literature and life, lects

Source: Literature and life, lects

“It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.”

People May Loses Medical More Time Anxious Attempting Astonishing Neurotic Misers Hypochondriac

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.”

Literature Speech Sentences Giants Quotations Maxims Sweeping Clauses

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder to robbery. I have somewhere seen it observed, that we should make the same use of a book, as a bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it; and those sweets she herself improves and concocts into honey. But most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, nor industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.”

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.”

Water Cities Streams Brooks Great Cities Hart

Book:The Intellectual Life

Source: The Intellectual Life

“I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.”

Ifs Thinking Should Technology Amount Labor Prosperity Available Genuine Saving Proportion Leisure Machinery Inverse

Author:E. F. Schumacher

“[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room.”

Men Growth Rooms Virtue Society He Man Computer Tests Universal Profit Business Success Communion Committees Benches Priesthood

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut.”

Ifs School Young Water Cities Struggle Cutting Air Society Streets Citizens Drink Taxes Losing Advantage Dollars Breathe Saved Dirty Filthy Tax Cuts Losing Out

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith