All Anais Nin Quotes
- Violence is a symptom of impotence. Impotence
- Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. Death
- To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you. Die
- We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply… Courage
- I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself. All
- He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. Addiction
- We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our… All
- Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need. Fullness
- I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. Darkly
- The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love. All
- I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity. Adore
- The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on… Book
- Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life. Become Destroyers
- Anxiety is loves greatest killer. Anxiety
- Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and… Blind
- The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation. Accompanies
- We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me… Believe
- What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is. Acceptance
- Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it. Artist
- "We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing." Behind