Anais Nin Quotes

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits

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

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

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

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.

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.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

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.