Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.
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
Catch
Rhythm
Angel
Torrential
Devil
Rushes
Life
Onward
Tempo
Devils
Angels
More quotes by Anais Nin
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
America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.
Anais Nin
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
Anais Nin
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
Anais Nin
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais Nin
Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
Anais Nin
Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.
Anais Nin
What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.
Anais Nin
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Anais Nin
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.
Anais Nin
The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror.
Anais Nin
All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.
Anais Nin
Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.
Anais Nin
I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.
Anais Nin
He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
Anais Nin
I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÏS NIN, Fire: From A Journal of Love The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1938 For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.
Anais Nin
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
Anais Nin
perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
Anais Nin
He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
Anais Nin
