Quote

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Anais Nin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Life
Ordinary
Wall
Shackles
Freedom
Intoxication
Doesn
Thirsty
Another
Impress
Reality
Ecstasy
Believe
Walls
Way
Escape

More quotes by Anais Nin

Image
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
Image
Solitude may rust your words.
Anais Nin
Image
I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension
Anais Nin
Image
I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .
Anais Nin
Image
I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
Anais Nin
Image
The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
Anais Nin
Image
I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.
Anais Nin
Image
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
Image
In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.
Anais Nin
Image
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
Anais Nin
Image
But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.
Anais Nin
Image
Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
Anais Nin
Image
We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.
Anais Nin
Image
Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.
Anais Nin
Image
Hollywood is a mirage factory.
Anais Nin
Image
I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
Anais Nin
Image
destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
Anais Nin
Image
I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.
Anais Nin
Image
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anais Nin
Image
At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say Anna and then add ees, with the accent on the ees.
Anais Nin