Quote

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

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
Leaning
Abyss
Touch

More quotes by Anais Nin

Image
For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.
Anais Nin
Image
The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.
Anais Nin
Image
Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others to be, not to seem.
Anais Nin
Image
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin
Image
she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
Anais Nin
Image
gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.
Anais Nin
Image
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
Image
It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.
Anais Nin
Image
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
Anais Nin
Image
What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
Anais Nin
Image
The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
Anais Nin
Image
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.
Anais Nin
Image
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
Anais Nin
Image
With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.
Anais Nin
Image
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
Anais Nin
Image
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.
Anais Nin
Image
There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.
Anais Nin
Image
I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
Anais Nin
Image
New York has an electronic heart.
Anais Nin
Image
People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.
Anais Nin