Quotes by Anais Nin

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”

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

“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. Th...”

“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”

“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more o...”

“Dreams are necessary to life.”

“All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.”

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

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

“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 ...”

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

“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neuroti...”

“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.”

“life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.”

“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.”

“Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live.”