Words matter. These are the best Anais Nin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
It’s all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its 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.
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.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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 naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.
Dreams are necessary to life.
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
