Anais Nin Quotes

Anais Nin
American Author
Born: Feb 21, 1903
Died: Jan 14, 1977
Life Living Love Man World You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
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
Inspirational Life Love Dreams You New Life Space Will Country Back Kite Throw New Like Know New Love Friend Your Your Dreams Bring
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
Friendship World Meeting Born Only New Until Arrive Friend New World Represents Us Each
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
Love Death Natural Wounds Weariness Never Know Because Blindness How Source Errors Dies Illness
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Anais Nin
Love You Age Some Protect Protects Does Extent
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. Anais Nin
Travel Other States Some Seek Souls Forever Us Lives
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
Strength Me Relationship Man Woman Courage Treat Innocent Doubt Believe Enormous Toughness Instinct Naive Demands Like Makes Does Choose Who Deeper Compels
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 Death People Life Is A Wish State States Kind Remain Through Fail Combination Becoming Go Where Process Elect
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. Anais Nin
Life Adversity Strength Stumble Lose Defeat Those Only Known Truly Endure Who Suffer
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. Anais Nin
Religion Political Blindly Become System Adopt Dogma Cease Political System Literary Grow
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. Anais Nin
Death Suffering Losing Giving Living Postpone Risking Error Chance
People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin
Life Death People Fear No Fear Living Deeply
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
Morning Me Joy Coffee Bird Fire Settled Sun Window Through Supported Rays Leaf Accompanied Walked Escape Task
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
Man Woman Women World Build Herself Rather Wrong She How Expect Than Wants Create
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
Truth Few Fragment Complete Scale Small Small Scale Instant Developments Mosaic Like Most Very Laborious Human Human Beings Staggering Them Acquire Successive Who Beings Illumination Receive
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
Love You Man Anxiety Will Others Panic Killer He Feel Drowning Know Him Makes Greatest His Want Holds Might Strangle Save
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
Art Perception Our See Magic Shakes Scene Writer New Renew Cease Up Familiar Meaning Function
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
Me Live Dream Running Miracle Catch Always Up Moment Unison
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. Anais Nin
Knowledge Sense Possession More Mystery Does Always Wonder
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
Man Father Fatherless Recognized Absence His Left Godless Child Human Confronted Then Created Who
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
Art You Culture Writing Our Out Through Write Cry Sing Because Breathe Then Use
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. Anais Nin
Reality Try Free Imagination Ways Transcend Them Many
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. Anais Nin
Say Unable Writer Role
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
Life Book Big Our Plot Cosmic Give Only Individual Like Person Meaning Novel Each
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all. Anais Nin
Woman First Above First Of All Am Human Right
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. Anais Nin
Human Being Rare Contact Precious Human Being Should Each Preserve
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. Anais Nin
Live Living Out Never Effort Wore Much
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