Anais Nin Quotes

Welcome to my Anais Nin quotes page. Now here was a very fascinating woman. Very accomplished and a total mystery. The person she was definitely intrigues me.

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(February 21, 1903–January 14, 1977)

• ANAIS NIN QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.
• Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
• 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.
• Dreams are necessary to life.
• How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself
• Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
• Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
• I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
• It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
• 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.
• The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
• Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
• Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
• 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.
• My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
• Good things happen to those who hustle.
• Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
• 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.
• People living deeply have no fear of death.
• 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.
• 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.
• From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
• When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
• I have the right to love many people at once and to change my prince often.
• Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
• We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
• When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
• What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.
• Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensible as poetry.
• The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
• There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
• Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

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