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Anaïs Nin Quotes

Total quotes: 33
“I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.”
— Anaïs Nin, Henry & June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin
Tagged: Self love, Courage, Passionate
“I want to love you wildly. I don't want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.”
— Anaïs Nin, via Amazon
Tagged: Love, deeply in love, Wild Love
“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Tagged: Life, Adventure, Mistakes
“Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
— Anaïs Nin, Incest: From a Journal of Love
Tagged: Reality, Escape, Freedom
“I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.”
— Anaïs Nin, Ladders to Fire
Tagged: Letting Go, Relationship, Love, Making memories
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
— Anaïs Nin, Parted Lips: Lesbian Love Quotes Through the Ages
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, romance, inspiration, Sex, reevaluate
“I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”
— Anaïs Nin, Incest: From “A Journal of Love” -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
Tagged: Self Acceptance, Self & Identity, self awareness, Self Care, self control, self, Self Construction, Empowering
“Don’t wait for it,’ I said. ‘Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened up to me.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Tagged: Creation, World, Self-Reliance, Action, Start now
“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
Tagged: Values, Virtue, positive affirmation, Positive behavior
“Lillian was reminded of the talmudic words: We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin, Seduction of the Minotaur
Tagged: Hebrew Adages, Wisdom
“Every day I say I cannot love him more, and every day I find more love in me for him.”
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)
Tagged: Love, romance, Dating
“I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Tagged: Love, Internal locus of control, Quote of the Moment
“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.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Friend, World, inside of us, arrival, born, Rebirth
“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.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Tagged: Friendship Quotes, BFF, Friend Quotes
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
— Anaïs Nin, Greatest Inspirational Quotes: 365 days to more Happiness, Success, and Motivation
Tagged: Bloom!, Postive Thoughts
“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 Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Tagged: Dreaming
“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”
— Anaïs Nin
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“...if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Tagged: Love, romance, love & relationship, Love & Connection
“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.”
— Anaïs Nin, Anais Nin Quotes
Tagged: Life, Change, Becoming, Growth, Personal Growth, INFP
“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 4 1944-1947: Vol. 4 (1944-1947)
Tagged: Freedom, Thinking, INFP, Reality, Imagination, Creativity
“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.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations
Tagged: what anxiety feels like, anxiety in literature, Love, Relationships
“She believed that certain illusions are life-giving.”
— Anaïs Nin, Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1947–1955
Tagged: Illusions, Daydreaming, Escape
“Why do I find everything but peace?”
— Anaïs Nin, Mirage
Tagged: Tired, Tired of life, lost
“I want to be able to trust, not live in perpetual self-defense.”
— Anaïs Nin, 003: The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944
Tagged: Defense Mechanisms, Trust, Trust Issues, Commitment Issues
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin, Anais nin
Tagged: Poetry, Philosophy, Psychology
“Come close to me, come closer. I promise you it will be beautiful.”
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin(1931-1932)
Tagged: Love, romance, Dating, Relationships
“Music's the medicine of the mind.”
— Anaïs Nin, Anais Nin's Narratives
Tagged: Music, Anais Nin
“I can only connect deeply or not at all.”
— Anaïs Nin, A quote by Anaïs Nin
Tagged: Connection, Deep, emotions
“You live out the confusions until they become clear.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anais Nin
Tagged: Confusion, Life, Challenges, Change, Navigating Change, Uncertainty, Leaning Into Uncertainty
“When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body.”
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus. Erotica By Anais Nin
Tagged: Sex, Love, erotica
“You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing. Permit yourself to flow and overflow, allow for the rise in temperature, all the expansions and intensifications. Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
Tagged: Fear, Imbibe, Fullness, Born Of Excess, Expansion, Creation, Experience
“When she saw that he was dissolved with pleasure, she stopped, divining that perhaps if she deprived him now he might make a gesture towards fulfillment. At first he made no motion. His sex was quivering, and he was tormented with desire… Marianne grew desperate. She pushed his hand away, took his sex into her mouth again, and with her two hands she encircled his sexual parts, caressed him and absorbed him until he came. He leaned over with gratitude, tenderness, and murmured, ‘You are the first woman, the first woman, the first woman…”
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus. Erotica By Anais Nin
Tagged: Sex Scenes, Sex In Lit, Sex
“What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Tagged: Destiny, Change, character
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