Quote

Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.

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
Friendship
Lives
Heart
Love
Life

More quotes by Anais Nin

Image
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
Anais Nin
Image
The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
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
Image
The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.
Anais Nin
Image
The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.
Anais Nin
Image
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
Anais Nin
Image
Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.
Anais Nin
Image
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
Anais Nin
Image
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
Anais Nin
Image
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin
Image
To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.
Anais Nin
Image
We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.
Anais Nin
Image
I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.
Anais Nin
Image
Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.
Anais Nin
Image
You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.
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
She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.
Anais Nin
Image
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
Anais Nin
Image
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
Image
Your eyes make me shy
Anais Nin