Quote

Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?

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
Afraid
Moving
Going

More quotes by Anais Nin

Image
When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.
Anais Nin
Image
myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth
Anais Nin
Image
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Anais Nin
Image
The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
Anais Nin
Image
What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.
Anais Nin
Image
Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
Anais Nin
Image
I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman
Anais Nin
Image
The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.
Anais Nin
Image
You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.
Anais Nin
Image
For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
Anais Nin
Image
I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.
Anais Nin
Image
Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.
Anais Nin
Image
I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.
Anais Nin
Image
I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
Anais Nin
Image
I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
Anais Nin
Image
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin
Image
Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
Anais Nin
Image
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
Anais Nin
Image
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
Anais Nin
Image
I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.
Anais Nin