45 Quotes By Anais Nin


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

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.
Anais Nin on art

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.
Anais Nin on art

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin on courage

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.
Anais Nin on courage

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Anais Nin on dad

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.
Anais Nin on death

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.
Anais Nin on death

People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin on death

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

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.
Anais Nin on dreams

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin on dreams

Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin on dreams

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Anais Nin on dreams

People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin on fear

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.
Anais Nin on friendship

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

Good things happen to those who hustle.
Anais Nin on good

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais Nin on imagination

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin on knowledge