Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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
Told
Literature
Universe
Words
Simplify
Reality
Expansion
Truth
Reduce
Something
Insight
Meaning
More quotes by Anais Nin
To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
Anais Nin
I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.
Anais Nin
I'm sick of my own romanticism!
Anais Nin
I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.
Anais Nin
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais Nin
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
Anais Nin
destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
Anais Nin
Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.
Anais Nin
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
Anais Nin
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
Anais Nin
If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.
Anais Nin
How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.
Anais Nin
Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the sudden sound when they all rise together, frightened away, is like the sound of giant sails flapping.
Anais Nin
Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.
Anais Nin
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
Anais Nin
Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.
Anais Nin
It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.
Anais Nin
America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.
Anais Nin
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
Anais Nin