Believe Quotes by Anais Nin

“I spell ‘god’ with a small ‘g’ because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.”

— Anaïs Nin

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage…

— Anais Nin

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or…

— Anais Nin

I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man…

— Anais Nin

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

— Anais Nin

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

— Anais Nin

I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.

— Anais Nin

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.

— Anais Nin

I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our…

— Anais Nin

I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations…

— Anais Nin

I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in…

— Anais Nin

although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all…

— Anais Nin

I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very…

— Anais Nin

When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone,…

— Anais Nin

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

— Anais Nin

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was…

— Anais Nin

Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver.…

— Anais Nin

Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because…

— Anais Nin

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and…

— Anais Nin

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, & you believe you are living.

— Anais Nin

“But my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again.”

— Anaïs Nin