To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection...… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, the senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful,… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“She could do nothing. Djuna’s words illuminated her chaos, but changed nothing. What was it Djuna said: that life tended to crystallize… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“Since that talk with Henry, when I admitted more than I had ever admitted to myself, my life has altered and become… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I… — Anais Nin 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 Copy Share Image
My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally,… — Anais 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
