75 Quotes by Anais Nin
Anais Nin was a French-American writer and diarist whose work explored themes of love, sexuality, and the complexity of human relationships. Her diaries, which span over several decades, offer a revealing glimpse into her personal life and creative process. Nin's writing is characterized by its poetic and lyrical style, as well as its frankness and honesty. (Bio)
Anais Nin Quotes
You fall in love with people's minds. (Meaning)
People living deeply have no fear of death. (Quote Meaning)
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles. (Meaning)
When one is pretending the entire body revolts. (Quote Meaning)
Good things happen to those who hustle. (Meaning)
In chaos, there is fertility. (Quote Meaning)
Dreams are necessary to life. (Meaning)
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. (Quote Meaning)
I love your silences, they are like mine. (Meaning)
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. (Quote Meaning)
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. (Meaning)
Each friend represents a world in us. (Quote Meaning)
Societies in decline have no use for visionaries. (Meaning)
Adolescence is like cactus. (Quote Meaning)
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. (Meaning)
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. (Quote Meaning)
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. (Meaning)
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. (Quote Meaning)
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. (Meaning)
Passion gives me moments of wholeness. (Quote Meaning)
I write emotional algebra. (Meaning)
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. (Quote Meaning)
The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. (Meaning)
From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister, we are all experts in human relationships. (Quote Meaning)
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. (Meaning)
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically. (Quote Meaning)
Our life is composed greatly from dreams. (Meaning)
Throw your dreams into space like a kite. (Quote Meaning)
Dreams pass into the reality of action. (Meaning)
We write to taste life twice. (Quote Meaning)
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. (Meaning)
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. (Quote Meaning)
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. (Meaning)
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
Love never dies a natural death. (Quote Meaning)
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. (Meaning)
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.
I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars. (Quote Meaning)
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself. (Meaning)
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
You fall in love with people's minds.
Write. Write until it stops hurting.
To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.
It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.
― Anais Nin Quotes
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