« All Us Quotes · Anais Nin's Page
Us Quotes by Anais Nin
- Each friend represents a world in us.
- We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship…
- Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and…
- Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world…
- We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
- If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible…
- What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and…
- We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are…
- Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a…
- Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
- It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my…
- Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
- The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only…
- I told her, "We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am not trying to…
- It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is remorse or bitterness for something which happened yesterday and the dread of…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong