Body Quotes by Anais Nin

“When I saw you, Sabina, I chose my body.”

— Anaïs Nin

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

— Anais Nin

Jazz is the music of the body.

— Anais Nin

When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.

— Anais Nin

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

— Anais Nin

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

— Anais Nin

the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it.…

— Anais Nin

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just…

— Anais Nin

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently…

— Anais Nin

He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that…

— Anais Nin

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and…

— Anais Nin

I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men…

— Anais Nin

I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have…

— Anais Nin

In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening,…

— Anais Nin

“She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, the senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful,…

— Anaïs Nin

Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her…

— Anais Nin

When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly…

— Anais Nin

And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more…

— Anais Nin

Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like…

— Anais Nin