--- title: "6 Journal Quotes By Anais Nin" description: "6 Journal quotes by Anais Nin. Plus more from Anais Nin and more Journal sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc8/anais-nin-288_bearable_i-only-regret-that-everybody-wants-to-de_544930.jpg" --- > [I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-only-regret-that-everybody-wants-to-deprive-me-of-the-journal-which/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc8/anais-nin-288_bearable_i-only-regret-that-everybody-wants-to-de_544930.jpg) > [The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/the-diary-taught-me-that-it-is-in-the-moments-of-emotional-crisis/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cb/anais-nin-288_crisis_the-diary-taught-me-that-it-is-in-the-mo_858524.png) > [I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÏS NIN, Fire: From "A Journal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-m-restless-things-are-calling-me-away-my-hair-is-being-pulled-by-2/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65f/anais-nin-288_adventure_i-m-restless-things-are-calling-me-away_1436580.jpg) > [Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/three-or-four-threads-may-be-agitated-like-telegraph-wires-at-the/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3c/anais-nin-288_agitated_three-or-four-threads-may-be-agitated-li_1692250.png) > [My diary seems to keep me whole.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/my-diary-seems-to-keep-me-whole/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f40/anais-nin-288_diaries_my-diary-seems-to-keep-me-whole-2929495_2929495.png) > [I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-am-quite-wiling-to-confide-entirely-in-human-being-except-that-at/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/327/anais-nin-288_busy_i-am-quite-wiling-to-confide-entirely-in_3190718.png) ## Other authors on Journal ## 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/journal/anais-nin/#itemlist", "name": "6 Journal Quotes By Anais Nin", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. 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