Quote

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.

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
Roots
Advantage
Transposed
Unless
Portable
Firsts
Endures
Nothing
Myths
First
Ladies
Great
Myth
Endure

More quotes by Anais Nin

Image
You live out the confusions until they become clear.
Anais Nin
Image
When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.
Anais Nin
Image
Our love lives because I live.
Anais Nin
Image
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
Anais Nin
Image
I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
Anais Nin
Image
I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.
Anais Nin
Image
I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.
Anais Nin
Image
We see things the way we are, not the way they are.
Anais Nin
Image
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin
Image
The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
Anais Nin
Image
In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.
Anais Nin
Image
Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.
Anais Nin
Image
I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.
Anais Nin
Image
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin
Image
The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.
Anais Nin
Image
The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.
Anais Nin
Image
Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
Anais Nin
Image
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
Image
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Anais Nin
Image
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
Anais Nin