Quotes by Anaïs Nin

“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.”

“[Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.”

“What I cannot love I overlook.”

“I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.”

“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.”

“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 wi...”

“Violence is a symptom of impotence.”

“I was thinking of my patients and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate they were in despair.”

“I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself because it always changes me.”

“She lacks confidence she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.”

“I postpone death by living by suffering by error by risking by giving by losing.”

“When one is pretending the entire body revolts.”

“Beware of allowing a tactless word rebuttal a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.”

“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person.”

“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 ...”

“A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chance of eventually being fought.”

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

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

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

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