Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Neuilly
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Anais Nin
Nature
Growth
Volunteer
Change
Risk
Tight
Women
Struggle
Painful
Writing
Growing
Adventure
Life
Came
Remain
Scribbles
Chance
Took
Blossoming
Fear
Motivational
Bud
Inspirational
Courage
Blossom
More quotes by Anais Nin
The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame the climate at times depresses him.
Anais Nin
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
Anais Nin
Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.
Anais Nin
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
Anais Nin
Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.
Anais Nin
notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.
Anais Nin
perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
Anais Nin
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin
One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.
Anais Nin
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
Anais Nin
Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.
Anais Nin
Most artists have retired too absolutely they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.
Anais Nin
Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.
Anais Nin
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.
Anais Nin
One may gain one truth at the expense of another.
Anais Nin
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.
Anais Nin
I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.
Anais Nin
The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.
Anais Nin
the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
Anais Nin
I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.
Anais Nin