Quote

No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.

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
Unfulfilled
Forced
Carry
Another
Self

More quotes by 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
Image
the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.
Anais Nin
Image
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin
Image
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
Anais Nin
Image
Great repressions create dualities.
Anais Nin
Image
Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
Anais Nin
Image
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.
Anais Nin
Image
America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.
Anais Nin
Image
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
Anais Nin
Image
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
Anais Nin
Image
I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
Anais Nin
Image
Solitude may rust your words.
Anais Nin
Image
To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
Anais Nin
Image
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin
Image
You fall in love with people's minds.
Anais Nin
Image
I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.
Anais Nin
Image
We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.
Anais Nin
Image
We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
Anais Nin
Image
Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
Anais Nin
Image
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin