--- title: "21 Doe Quotes By Anais Nin" description: "21 Doe quotes by Anais Nin. Plus more from Anais Nin and more Doe sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/312/anais-nin-288_addiction_he-does-not-need-opium-he-has-the-gift-o_2231783.png" --- > [He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/he-does-not-need-opium-he-has-the-gift-of-reverie/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/312/anais-nin-288_addiction_he-does-not-need-opium-he-has-the-gift-o_2231783.png) > [Ordinary life does not interest me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/ordinary-life-does-not-interest-me/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e71/anais-nin-288_doe_ordinary-life-does-not-interest-me-27547_2754742.png) > [There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/there-is-an-ugliness-in-being-paid-for-work-one-does-not-like/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d49/anais-nin-288_doe_there-is-an-ugliness-in-being-paid-for-w_2625135.png) > [Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/woman-does-not-forget-she-needs-the-fecundator-she-does-not-forget/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04b/anais-nin-288_born_woman-does-not-forget-she-needs-the-fecu_770129.png) > [There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/there-is-no-denying-that-we-are-suffering-from-a-collective-neurosis/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c7/anais-nin-288_books_there-is-no-denying-that-we-are-sufferin_2879283.png) > [Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/analysis-does-not-take-into-account-the-creative-products-of-neurotic/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81d/anais-nin-288_accounts_analysis-does-not-take-into-account-the_2983612.png) > [We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/we-see-the-world-as-we-are-not-as-it-is-because-it-is-the-i-behind/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/655/anais-nin-288_behinds_we-see-the-world-as-we-are-not-as-it-is_103480.png) > [Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/ordinary-life-does-not-interest-me-i-seek-only-the-high-moments-i-am-2/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/303/anais-nin-288_accord_ordinary-life-does-not-interest-me-i-see_3008556.png) > [Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/perhaps-a-child-like-a-cat-is-so-much-inside-of-himself-that-he-does/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90b/anais-nin-288_cat_perhaps-a-child-like-a-cat-is-so-much-in_1785351.png) > [We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/we-are-like-sculptors-constantly-carving-out-of-others-the-image-we/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/936/anais-nin-288_acceptance_we-are-like-sculptors-constantly-carving_259849.png) > [the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/the-best-way-to-remember-a-beautiful-city-or-a-beautiful-painting-is/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4c/anais-nin-288_artist_the-best-way-to-remember-a-beautiful-cit_1244822.jpg) > [I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-cheat-him-i-deceive-him-yet-the-world-does-not-sink-in-sulphur/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/518/anais-nin-288_cheat_i-cheat-him-i-deceive-him-yet-the-world_2901530.png) > [One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/one-discovers-that-destiny-can-be-diverted-that-one-does-not-have-to/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a37/anais-nin-288_bondage_one-discovers-that-destiny-can-be-divert_1474780.png) > [She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/she-lacks-confidence-she-craves-admiration-insatiably-she-lives-on/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ab/anais-nin-288_acceptance_she-lacks-confidence-she-craves-admirati_1411062.png) > [The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/the-imagination-is-far-better-at-inventing-tortures-than-life-because/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/156/anais-nin-288_demon_the-imagination-is-far-better-at-inventi_867774.png) > [Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/ordinary-life-does-not-interest-me-i-seek-only-the-high-moments-i-am/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1bc/anais-nin-288_accord_ordinary-life-does-not-interest-me-i-see_2308326.jpg) > [The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/the-theme-of-the-diary-is-always-the-personal-but-it-does-not-mean/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c14/anais-nin-288_diaries_the-theme-of-the-diary-is-always-the-per_2600131.png) > [Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/often-though-the-passivity-of-the-woman-s-role-weighs-on-me/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/416/anais-nin-288_body_often-though-the-passivity-of-the-woman_2750685.jpg) > [The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/the-source-of-sexual-power-is-curiosity-passion-you-are-watching-its-2/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/anais-nin-288_asphyxiation_the-source-of-sexual-power-is-curiosity_1257129.png) > [What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/what-we-call-our-destiny-is-truly-our-character-and-that-character/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/049/anais-nin-288_action_what-we-call-our-destiny-is-truly-our-ch_1648628.jpg) > [Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/why-do-i-doubt-her-perhaps-she-is-just-very-sensitive-and/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/328/anais-nin-288_believe_why-do-i-doubt-her-perhaps-she-is-just-v_1127660.jpg) ## Other authors on Doe ## More by Anais Nin > [I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-wanted-to-remember-in-order-to-be-able-to-return/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [“…For love it is never the same. What goes on inside is never the same just like this music which changes every instant. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/for-love-it-is-never-the-same-what-goes-on-inside-is-never-the-same/) [Anaïs Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 moans are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/jazz-is-the-music-of-the-body-the-breath-comes-through-brass-it-is/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-have-so-strong-a-sense-of-creation-of-tomorrow-that-i-cannot-get/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/we-don-t-have-a-language-for-the-senses-feelings-are-images/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/strange-isn-t-it-that-no-chemical-will-give-a-human-being-the/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/the-personal-if-it-is-deep-enough-becomes-universal-mythical-symbolic/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/introspection-is-a-devouring-monster-you-have-to-feed-it-with-much/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/in-each-studio-there-is-a-human-being-dressed-in-the-full-regalia-of/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-don-t-mind-working-holding-my-ground-intellectually-artistically/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [“Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/laughter-and-tears-are-not-separate-experiences-with-intervals-of/) [Anaïs Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/the-basis-of-insincerity-is-the-idealized-image-we-hold-of-ourselves/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [I write emotional algebra.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-write-emotional-algebra/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/the-role-of-the-writer-is-not-to-say-what-we-can-all-say-but-what-we/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-say-quotations-are-literary-they-are-good-only-when-dealing-with/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doe/anais-nin/#itemlist", "name": "21 Doe Quotes By Anais Nin", "numberOfItems": 21, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "He does not need opium. 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