Quote

To love and to labor is the sum of living.

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
Living
Love
Labor

More quotes by Anais Nin

Image
The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.
Anais Nin
Image
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.
Anais Nin
Image
Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.
Anais Nin
Image
I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
Anais Nin
Image
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
Anais Nin
Image
Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.
Anais Nin
Image
The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.
Anais Nin
Image
There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.
Anais Nin
Image
To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
Anais Nin
Image
When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.
Anais Nin
Image
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
Anais Nin
Image
You live out the confusions until they become clear.
Anais Nin
Image
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Anais Nin
Image
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
Anais Nin
Image
We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.
Anais Nin
Image
I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you into me. I could stuff my ears and it would find its way into my blood and make it rise.
Anais Nin
Image
Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.
Anais Nin
Image
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
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
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
Anais Nin