“Dreams are necessary to life.”
Dreams
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
ReligionAll Quotes by Anais Nin
“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“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“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“Good things happen to those who hustle.”
Good“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“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“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
Love“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Friendship“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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
Courage“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
Imagination“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“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“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“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”
Dreams“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
Life“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“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Age