Anais Nin Quotes About Hunger

Quotes about: Hunger

• 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.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Needs, Hunger

• Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

  Anais Nin

  Strength, Sisterhood, Men

• The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and final portions; the pain of this constant ambivalence and interrelation of emotions; the hunger for frontiers against which we might learn as upon closed doors before we proceed forward; the struggle against diffusion, new beginnings, against finality in acts without finality or end, in our cursedly repercussive being.

  Anais Nin

  Pain, Memories, Struggle

• To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Mistake, Mean

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