Quotes by Anais Nin
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
- Anais Nin
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- 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.
- Anais Nin
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
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
- Anaïs Nin
I write emotional algebra.
- Anaïs Nin
I love your silences, they are like mine.
- Anaïs Nin
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
- Anaïs Nin
I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
- Anaïs Nin
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anaïs Nin
Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.
- Anaïs Nin
Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- Anaïs Nin
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
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
- Anaïs Nin
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anaïs Nin
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
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
- Anaïs Nin
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anaïs Nin
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments.
- Anaïs Nin