World Quotes by Anais Nin

We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.

— Anais Nin

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

— Anais Nin

All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

— Anais Nin

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

— Anais Nin

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

— Anais Nin

When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.

— Anais Nin

Each friend represents a world in us.

— Anais Nin

“We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are”

— Anaïs Nin

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.”

— Anais Nin

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that…

— Anais Nin

The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

— Anais Nin

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

— Anais Nin

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

— Anais Nin

We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the…

— Anais Nin

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

— Anais Nin

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time…

— Anais Nin

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the…

— Anais Nin

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in,…

— Anais Nin

I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put…

— Anais Nin

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire…

— Anais Nin

The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what…

— Anais Nin

I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality…

— Anais Nin

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my…

— Anais Nin

I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations…

— Anais Nin

I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream,…

— Anais Nin

The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes,…

— Anais Nin

We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection...…

— Anais Nin

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary…

— Anais Nin

At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my…

— Anais Nin

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

It amazes me that you feel that each time you write a story you give away one of your dreams and you…

— Anais Nin

Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because…

— Anais Nin

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

— Anais Nin

I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I…

— Anais Nin

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

— Anais Nin

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, & you believe you are living.

— Anais Nin

At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to…

— Anais Nin

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.

— Anais Nin

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

— Anais Nin

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be…

— Anais Nin