Anaïs Nin Quotes

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body’s breath, and the stri...

Am I creating my own isolation? It seems to me that most of my acts are acts of integrity. So much t...

Perhaps behind our occasional hostility toward the artist and writer there may be a slight tinge of ...

For our anxiety is the one thing we cannot place on the shoulders of others, it suffocates them.

What is the greatest need of human beings? What is it they seek from me always? Intimacy. I listen w...

Through books I discovered everything to be loved, explored, visited, communed with. I was enriched ...

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

Now, his hair is white and he no longer understands anyone's need to love, for he has lost everythin...

Of course, you'll defend Jay," says Rango, He was a part of your former life, of your former values....

But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloo...

He had appointed her not only guardian angel, but a member of his ideals.

He failed to see that it contained at once all of Djuna's wishes which had been denied, and these wi...

Love the great narcotic was the revealer in the alchemist's bottle rendering visible the most untrac...

When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as ...

Ali Baba protects the lovers! Gives them the luck of bandits, and no guilt, for love fills certain p...

Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, ...

No moment of charm without long roots in the past, no moment of charm is born on bare soil, a carele...

Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.

The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whol...

The magic beauty of simultaneity, to see the loved one rushing toward you at the same moment you are...

These rituals Rango could not sustain, for he could not maintain the effort to arrive on time since ...

When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive

Every word spoken in the past accumulated forms and colors in the self. What flows through the veins...

Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, sad...

His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could s...

Although I was so big, and so rough in many ways, loved hunting, fighting, horseback riding, I loved...

No man and woman know what will be born in the darkness of their intermingling; so much besides chil...

I am sure you would not understand if I told you my father is delightfully clear and selfish, tender...

And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the...

What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you?

So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, clutterin...

I loved your breaking down that door, repeated Djuna. Through Rango she had breathed some other real...

The fascination exerted by one human being over another is not what he emits of his personality at t...

In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this inst...

Her presence had awakened in him a man suddenly whipped by his earlier ideals, whose lost manhood wa...

You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.

Paul, Paul, this is the claim you never made, the fervor you never showed. You were so cool and ligh...

No privacy left. No manners.

I stress the expansion and elaboration of language. In simplifying it, reducing it, we reduce the po...

Fucking is an art. The mere fact of introducing the cock in the cunt and moving it in and out until ...

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Beware of allowing a tactless word rebuttal a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

Each friend represents a world in us a world possibly not born until they arrive and it is only by...

When you make a world tolerable for yourself you make a world tolerable for others.

What I cannot love I overlook.

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matte...

There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his fee...

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shack...

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illuminat...

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves i...

She was sewing together the little proofs of his devotion out of which to make a garment for her tat...

He had never seen her body so abandoned, so unconscious of all but the desire to be taken and satisf...

Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room.

There are women’s voices that sound like poetic, unearthly echoes. Then they change. The eyes change...

I walked into my own book, seeking peace.It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dre...

A voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it wo...

Over and over again I sail towards joy, which is never in the room with me, but always near me, acro...

They clutch and cling and howl when I leave them, but how badly they love.

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ...

Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like anothe...

There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.

I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lo...

I love you, June, and you know how acutely, how desperately. You know that no one can say or do anyt...

Love reduces the complexity of living. It amazes me that when Henry walks towards the cafe table whe...

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will ...

One does not learn to suffer less but to dodge pain.

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept becau...

I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet acc...

Dr Allendy said that it was necessary to become equal to life, that the romantic was defeated by lif...

No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns ...

What you call your lies are fiction and myths. The art of creating a disguise can be as beautiful as...

We are dancing on our irony as upon the top of glowing sparks.

Confront all the angry thoughts, feelings, the jealousies and condemnations, to find their cause, se...

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge tha...

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the fe...

I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the c...

Men can be in love with literary figures, with poetic and mythological figures, but let them meet wi...

I never lose sight of the whole. An impeccable dress is made to be lived in, to be torn, wet, staine...

The relief of opening one's hand and letting go was immense. But soon after, I tightened again. A de...

Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and...

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though wh...

I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding.

My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

The truth is that this is the only way I can live: in two directions. I need two lives. I am two bei...

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is dest...

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up...

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of hersel...

Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress , my hairdresser, my make-up, it will all ...

And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling...

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept becau...

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though wh...

There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierar...

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

This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes a...

What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I...

When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, ...