When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“When I am happy it is so rare. I need to dwell on it, to contemplate it. What a hunger, a craving… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, not perfection but a perfect… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“The truth is that this is the only way I can live: in two directions. I need two lives. I am two… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I would answer to someone who asked me for a description of myself, in a hurry? This: ??… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“And now I lost my last treasure: the dreaming. For nothing in the dreams took the place of the human warmth I… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“The drug of love was no escape, for in its coils lie latent dreams of greatness which awaken when men and women… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“Dear Collector: We hate you. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“…For love it is never the same. What goes on inside is never the same just like this music which changes every instant. For… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
