Anaïs Nin or Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell was one of those writers who could make your heart jump here and there due to her wisely chosen words.
She knew how to put the words together in such a way that you could simply contour in your head the image of what she was describing, no matter the field she was talking about.
But what Anaïs Nin excelled, was to share with the world the true meaning of life and love and this is what made me decide to write an entire article dedicated to her because her words are pure gold, a treasure that should remain untouched many, many years from now.
That being said, enjoy these 25 Anaïs Nin quotes that will make you feel alive.
1.“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ―Anaïs Nin
2.“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” ― Anaïs Nin
3.“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.” ― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
4.“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 mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”― Anaïs Nin
5.“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality, those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.” ― Anaïs Nin
6.“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” ― Anaïs Nin
7.“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.” ― Anaïs Nin
8.“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” ― Anaïs Nin
9.“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.” ― Anaïs Nin
10.“Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.” ― Anaïs Nin, Henry And June
11.“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.” ― Anaïs Nin, Henry And June
12.“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.” ― Anaïs Nin
13.“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.” ― Anaïs Nin
14.“Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.” ― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
15.“There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don’t work.” ― Anaïs Nin, Henry And June
16.“You cannot save people. You can only love them.” ― Anaïs Nin
17.“There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.” ― Anaïs Nin
18.“Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” ― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
19.“You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.” ― Anaïs Nin
20.“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” ― Anaïs Nin
21.“Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” ― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
22.“I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ” ― Anaïs Nin
23.“People living deeply have no fear of death.” ― Anaïs Nin
24.“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” ― Anaïs Nin
24.“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”― Anaïs Nin
25.“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” ― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
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