32 quotes by Anais Nin

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” — Anais Nin

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“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.” — Anais Nin

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

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“I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again” — Anais Nin

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“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 naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” — Anais Nin

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“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.” — Anais Nin

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“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” — Anais Nin

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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” — Anais Nin

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“People living deeply have no fear of death.” — Anais Nin

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“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” — Anais Nin

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“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.” — Anais Nin

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“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.” — Anais Nin

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“Dreams are necessary to life.” — Anais Nin

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“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.” — Anais Nin

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“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 is born.” — Anais Nin

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“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?” — Anais Nin

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“Good things happen to those who hustle.” — Anais Nin

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“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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“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” — Anais Nin

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“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.” — Anais Nin

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“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.” — Anais Nin

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“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.” — Anais Nin

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“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

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

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“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.” — Anais Nin

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