Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. — Anais Nin Break up Copy Share Image
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves. — Anais Nin Inspirational Copy Share Image
My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living. — Anais Nin Inspirational Copy Share Image
I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds. — Anais Nin Branches Copy Share Image
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive. — Anais Nin Able Copy Share Image
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. — Anais Nin Asphyxiation Copy Share Image
Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in… — Anais Nin Born Copy Share Image
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. — Anais Nin Depth Copy Share Image
Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing. — Anais Nin Diaries Copy Share Image
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. — Anais Nin Books Copy Share Image
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty. — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows… — Anais Nin Air Copy Share Image
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. — Anais Nin Freedom Copy Share Image
The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where… — Anais Nin Demon Copy Share Image
Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as… — Anais Nin Alarms Copy Share Image
I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our… — Anais Nin Action Copy Share Image
But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have… — Anais Nin Creation Copy Share Image
“We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in… — Anaïs Nin Brainy-quotes Copy Share Image
There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have… — Anais Nin Boundaries Copy Share Image
I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are… — Anais Nin Day by day Copy Share Image
“I have always been tormented by the image of multiplicity of selves. Some days I call it richness, and other days I… — Anaïs Nin Fragments Copy Share Image
The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes,… — Anais Nin Commit Copy Share Image
I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as… — Anais Nin Catastrophe Copy Share Image
“He was only for the joyous days, the days of courage, when she could share with him all the good things he… — Anaïs Nin Change Copy Share Image
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the… — Anais Nin Accord Copy Share Image
“I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very… — Anaïs Nin Faithful wife Copy Share Image
“I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in… — Anais Nin Bdsm Copy Share Image
The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and… — Anais Nin Adversity Copy Share Image
“I have always been tormented by the image of multiplicity of selves. Some days I call it richness, and other days I… — Anais Nin Children Copy Share Image