Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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
Created
Certainly
Creating
Whole
Would
Essayists
World
Conformity
People
Novelists
Died
More quotes by Anais Nin
One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.
Anais Nin
The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.
Anais Nin
When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.
Anais Nin
All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.
Anais Nin
although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
Anais Nin
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.
Anais Nin
A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
Anais Nin
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.
Anais Nin
To love and to labor is the sum of living.
Anais Nin
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
Anais Nin
He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.
Anais Nin
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.
Anais Nin
We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
Anais Nin
I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.
Anais Nin
I love your silences, they are like mine.
Anais Nin
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
Anais Nin
Each friend represents a world in us.
Anais Nin
You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.
Anais Nin
The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
Anais Nin
