Anais Nin Quotes

From this France born author, enjoy these Anais Nin quotes. She is best remembered for journals. Let her words inspire you, many contain inspirational thoughts. She was born in 1903 and died in 1977.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Anais Nin

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Anais Nin

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Anais Nin

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Anais Nin

Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais Nin



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