“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
Knowledge
“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”
FriendshipAll Quotes by 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.”
Dreams“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
Religion“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
Courage“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
Love“Good things happen to those who hustle.”
Good“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
Imagination“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Age“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“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”
Death“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”
Friendship“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.”
Love“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“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“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“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“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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
Travel“Dreams are necessary to life.”
Dreams“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, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”
Truth