Quote

I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

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
Creature
Rarely
Allowed
Wings
Creatures
Ecstasies
Use
Winged
Often
Occur
Enough
Ecstasy

More quotes by Anais Nin

Image
Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
Anais Nin
Image
I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
Anais Nin
Image
I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.
Anais Nin
Image
the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
Anais Nin
Image
Your eyes make me shy
Anais Nin
Image
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
Anais Nin
Image
We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.
Anais Nin
Image
They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.
Anais Nin
Image
I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
Anais Nin
Image
The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.
Anais Nin
Image
Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
Anais Nin
Image
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
Anais Nin
Image
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
Anais Nin
Image
I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn something, whether useful or harmful - that is difficult to analyze until later you always give something you alwayou always grow a little in one direction or another.
Anais Nin
Image
Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!
Anais Nin
Image
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
Anais Nin
Image
The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
Anais Nin
Image
Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.
Anais Nin
Image
jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
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