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120 Best Anais Nin Quotes

posted on January 21, 2022

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1) Top 10 Anais Nin Quotes
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Top 10 Anais Nin Quotes

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
— Anais Nin

Age does not protect you from love. But love to some extent protects you from age.— Anais Nin

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.
— Anais Nin

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
— Anais Nin

I must be a mermaid Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.— Anais Nin

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
— Anais Nin

We travel some of us forever to seek other states other lives other souls.— Anais Nin

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
— Anais Nin

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.— Anais Nin

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.
— Anais Nin

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.
— Anais Nin

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.— Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
— Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands according to ones courage.— Anais Nin

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
— Anais Nin

We dont see things as they are we see them as we are.— Anais Nin

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.
— Anais Nin

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.— Anais Nin

Anais Nin Quotes About Life

I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult.
— Anais Nin

I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult.— Anais Nin

And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
— Anais Nin

And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.— Anais Nin

I do not confess any more, I have no remorse, yet am I doing penance for my enjoyments?
— Anais Nin

I do not confess any more I have no remorse yet am I doing penance for my enjoyments— Anais Nin

With a great clap of thunder, and like bitter tears The drops of rain become noisily mixed with those already fallen.
— Anais Nin

With a great clap of thunder and like bitter tears The drops of rain become noisily mixed with those already fallen.— Anais Nin

I could be healed by the sheer courage of continuing to live. I could heal myself.
— Anais Nin

I could be healed by the sheer courage of continuing to live. I could heal myself.— Anais Nin

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
— Anais Nin

We write to taste life twice in the moment and in retrospect.— Anais Nin

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
— Anais Nin

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically musically in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.— Anais Nin

You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.
— Anais Nin

You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.— Anais Nin

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
— Anais Nin

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say but what we are unable to say.— Anais Nin

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn ‘t impress me.
— Anais Nin

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous I let go. Reality doesn ‘t impress me.— Anais Nin

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
— Anais Nin

Life is a process of becoming a combination of states we have to go through.— Anais Nin

I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
— Anais Nin

I only believe in intoxication in ecstasy and when ordinary life shackles me I escape one way or another. No more walls.— Anais Nin

The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present.
— Anais Nin

The past present and future mingle and pull us backward forward or fix us in the present.— Anais Nin

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
— Anais Nin

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants rather than to create it herself— Anais Nin

Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
— Anais Nin

Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.— Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.
— Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands according to ones courage.— Anais Nin 1

I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me.
— Anais Nin

I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me.— Anais Nin

We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another.
— Anais Nin

We are relative. We are mature in one realm childish in another.— Anais Nin

Worlds self-made are so full of monsters and demons.
— Anais Nin

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.— Anais Nin

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.
— Anais Nin

In reality, those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ‘idea of them.’
— Anais Nin

In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ‘idea of them.— Anais Nin

I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
— Anais Nin

I hate men who are afraid of womens strength.— Anais Nin

We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
— Anais Nin

We are made up of layers cells constellations.— Anais Nin

Only in the fever of creation could she recreate her own lost life.
— Anais Nin

Only in the fever of creation could she recreate her own lost life.— Anais Nin

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially.
— Anais Nin

We do not grow absolutely chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension and not in another unevenly. We grow partially.— Anais Nin

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
— Anais Nin

Luxury is not a necessity to me but beautiful and good things are.— Anais Nin

I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires an effort I cannot make.
— Anais Nin

I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires an effort I cannot make.— Anais Nin

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
— Anais Nin

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.— Anais Nin

The cult of the unconscious as proclaimed by Rimbaud. It is not madness. It is an effort to transcend the rigidities and the patterns made by the rational mind.
— Anais Nin

The cult of the unconscious as proclaimed by Rimbaud. It is not madness. It is an effort to transcend the rigidities and the patterns made by the rational mind.— Anais Nin

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.
— Anais Nin

Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
— Anais Nin

Dont let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.— Anais Nin

There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.
— Anais Nin

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book (Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating.
— Anais Nin

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
— Anais Nin

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.— Anais Nin

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
— Anais Nin

Our life is composed greatly from dreams from the unconscious and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.— Anais Nin

But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now.
— Anais Nin

But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now.— Anais Nin

I had always believed in Andre Breton’s freedom, to write as one thinks, in the order and disorder in which one feels in thinks, to follow sensations and absurd correlations of events and images, to trust to the new realms they lead one into.
— Anais Nin

What unites us universally is our emotions, our feelings in the face of experience, and not necessarily the actual experiences themselves.
— Anais Nin

What unites us universally is our emotions our feelings in the face of experience and not necessarily the actual experiences themselves.— Anais Nin

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
— Anais Nin

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists searching for the marvelous.— Anais Nin

My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.
— Anais Nin

I am a neurotic – in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
— Anais Nin

I am a neurotic – in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.— Anais Nin

Anais Nin Quotes on Love & Relationships

Do not seek the because—in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
— Anais Nin

Do not seek the because – in love there is no because no reason no explanation no solutions.— Anais Nin

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.
— Anais Nin

You dont find love it finds you. Its got a little bit to do with destiny fate and whats written in the stars.— Anais Nin

Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
— Anais Nin

Where the myth fails human love begins. Then we love a human being not our dream but a human being with flaws.— Anais Nin

If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
— Anais Nin

If I love you it means we share the same fantasies the same madnesses.— Anais Nin

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
— Anais Nin

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants rather than to create it herself.— Anais Nin

You cannot save people. You can only love them.
— Anais Nin

You cannot save people. You can only love them.— Anais Nin

Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
— Anais Nin

Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.— Anais Nin

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
— Anais Nin

I reserve the right to love many different people at once and to change my prince often.— Anais Nin

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
— Anais Nin

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.— Anais Nin

I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
— Anais Nin

I hate men who are afraid of womens strength.— Anais Nin 1

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
— Anais Nin

Anxiety is loves greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him but you know he will strangle you with his panic.— Anais Nin

In reality, those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my idea of them.
— Anais Nin

In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my idea of them.— Anais Nin

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do.
— Anais Nin

I am lonely yet not everybody will do.— Anais Nin

Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.
— Anais Nin

Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.— Anais Nin

There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.
— Anais Nin

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.
— Anais Nin

I am lonely yet not everybody will do. I dont know why some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.— Anais Nin

The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.
— Anais Nin

The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.— Anais Nin

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
— Anais Nin

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.— Anais Nin

Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
— Anais Nin

Do not seek the because – in love there is no because no reason no explanation no solutions.— Anais Nin 1

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.
— Anais Nin

Someday I’ll be locked up for love insanity. ‘She loved too much!’
— Anais Nin

Someday Ill be locked up for love insanity. ‘She loved too much— Anais Nin

You should not love me. One ought not to love the moon. If you come too near me, I will hurt you.
— Anais Nin

You should not love me. One ought not to love the moon. If you come too near me I will hurt you.— Anais Nin

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.
— Anais Nin

We speak of the masculine and the feminine but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.— Anais Nin

Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct, an excrescence of love, the song I sing, the joy which must explode, the overabundance — that is all!
— Anais Nin

Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct an excrescence of love the song I sing the joy which must explode the overabundance — that is all— Anais Nin

Oh, God, I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.
— Anais Nin

Oh God I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love no ecstasy like that of a new love.— Anais Nin

Anais Nin Quotes About Friendship

I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable…
— Anais Nin

I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal which is the only steadfast friend I have the only one which makes my life bearable…— Anais Nin

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
— Anais Nin

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.— Anais Nin 1

Anais Nin Quotes to Inspire Deeper Living

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
— Anais Nin

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent but few know how many women there are in me.— Anais Nin

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
— Anais Nin

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.— Anais Nin

I want to make my own discoveries… penetrate the evil which attracts me.
— Anais Nin

I want to make my own discoveries… penetrate the evil which attracts me.— Anais Nin

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
— Anais Nin

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.— Anais Nin

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.
— Anais Nin

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
— Anais Nin

Each contact with a human being is so rare so precious one should preserve it.— Anais Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
— Anais Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination as I try to do.— Anais Nin

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
— Anais Nin

I postpone death by living by suffering by error by risking by giving by losing.— Anais Nin

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
— Anais Nin

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison from which I can only escape by writing.— Anais Nin

To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break myself. I want to live only for ecstasy. I’m neurotic, perverted, destructive, fiery, dangerous – lava, inflammable, unrestrained.
— Anais Nin

Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
— Anais Nin

Passion gives me moments of wholeness.— Anais Nin

Dreams are necessary to life.
— Anais Nin

Dreams are necessary to life.— Anais Nin

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
— Anais Nin

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.— Anais Nin

When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.
— Anais Nin

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.— Anais Nin

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
— Anais Nin

Life is a full circle widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.— Anais Nin

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
— Anais Nin

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images just watching images passing by which I cannot live in make love to possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.— Anais Nin

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art ― we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
— Anais Nin

We do not escape into philosophy psychology and art ― we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.— Anais Nin

I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
— Anais Nin

Im restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.— Anais Nin

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
— Anais Nin

When you make a world tolerable for yourself you make a world tolerable for others.— Anais Nin

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, and stumble from defeat to defeat.
— Anais Nin

Life is truly known only to those who suffer lose endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.— Anais Nin

More Best Anais Nin Quotes

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
— Anais Nin

Life is truly known only to those who suffer lose endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.— Anais Nin 1

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
— Anais Nin

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.— Anais Nin

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
— Anais Nin

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up to live for a moment in unison with it that was the miracle.— Anais Nin

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
— Anais Nin

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.— Anais Nin

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
— Anais Nin

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.— Anais Nin

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
— Anais Nin

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.— Anais Nin

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
— Anais Nin

When we blindly adopt a religion a political system a literary dogma we become automatons. We cease to grow.— Anais Nin

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.
— Anais Nin

We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.
— Anais Nin

We write to taste life twice in the moment and in retrospection.— Anais Nin

It’s all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
— Anais Nin

Its all right for a woman to be above all human. I am a woman first of all.— Anais Nin

Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
— Anais Nin

Truth is something which cant be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.— Anais Nin

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
— Anais Nin

Life is a process of becoming a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.— Anais Nin

People living deeply have no fear of death.
— Anais Nin

People living deeply have no fear of death.— Anais Nin

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
— Anais Nin

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say but what we are unable to say.— Anais Nin

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.
— Anais Nin

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
— Anais Nin

What I cannot love I overlook. Is that real friendship— Anais Nin

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.
— Anais Nin

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.— Anais Nin

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
— Anais Nin

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene and as if by magic we see a new meaning in it.— Anais Nin

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
— Anais Nin

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.— Anais Nin

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
— Anais Nin

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.
— Anais Nin

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.— Anais Nin

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.
— Anais Nin

If you do not breathe through writing if you do not cry out in writing or sing in writing then dont write because our culture has no use for it.— Anais Nin

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