“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
Life
“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
ImaginationAll Quotes by Anais Nin
“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.”
Courage“Good things happen to those who hustle.”
Good“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
Travel“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Nature“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
Art“Dreams are necessary to life.”
Dreams“Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.”
Truth“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
Religion“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Age“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.”
Death“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”
Morning“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
Love“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.”
Dreams“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.”
Art“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”
Dad“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.”
Death“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“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”
Death“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”
Dreams