Anais Nin Quotes
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Anais Nin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being.
I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.
We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
Whereas by desiring someone who would not desire her, she could allow this fire to burn and feel: how alive I am! I am capable of desire.
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.
You had to account for every move, arrival or exit. In the world there was a conspiracy against improvisation. It was only permitted in jazz.
I always have difficulty with people who are not openly warm, expressive. I need a certain sign, a certain invitation.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ
I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.
I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
She acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
I feel very small. I don't understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things.
What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.
Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.
Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity...
I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension
I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.
Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence.
I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.
Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between your legs.
Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul - you create suffering.
This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.
The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.