Passion Anais Nin Quotes
- “What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.” — Anais Nin
- “The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.” — Anais Nin
- “Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.” — Anais Nin
- “Passion gives me moments of wholeness.” — Anais Nin
- “Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.” — Anais Nin
- “The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.” — Anais Nin
- “One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one’s faith, one’s love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.” — Anais Nin
- “The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.” — Anais Nin
- “I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.” — Anais Nin
Anais Nin Inspirational Quotes
- “From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.” — Anais Nin
- “When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” — Anais Nin
- “Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.” — Anais Nin
- “Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” — Anais Nin
- “Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” — Anais Nin
- “We see the world as ’we’ are, not as ’it’ is; because it is the I" behind the ’eye’ that does the seeing."” — Anais Nin
- “You cannot save people. You can only love them.” — Anais Nin
- “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
- “Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.” — Anais Nin
- “willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.” — Anais Nin
- “We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.” — Anais Nin
Anais Nin Motivational Quotes
- “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anais Nin
- “My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.” — Anais Nin
- “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” — Anais Nin
- “Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.” — Anais Nin
- “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
- “When you possess light within, you see it externally.” — Anais Nin
- “Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.” — Anais Nin
- “Good things happen to those who hustle.” — Anais Nin
Love Anais Nin Quotes
- “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.” — Anais Nin
- “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
- “The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.” — Anais Nin
- “I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.” — Anais Nin
- “When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.” — Anais Nin
- “I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.” — Anais Nin
- “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” — Anais Nin
- “If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses” — Anais Nin
- “You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.” — Anais Nin
- “You fall in love with people’s minds.” — Anais Nin
- “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” — Anais Nin
- “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.” — Anais Nin
- “Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” — Anais Nin
- “The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.” — Anais Nin
- “Your eyes make me shy.” — Anais Nin
Anais Nin Quotes on Desire
- “When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.” — Anais Nin
- “Don’t say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have to share my kingdom with you.” — Anais Nin
- “Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man’s sensual mast.” — Anais Nin
- “Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves.” — Anais Nin
- “Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.” — Anais Nin
- “Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.” — Anais Nin
- “You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.” — Anais Nin
- “She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires, and that any dislocation in this, any indifference, was an indication of disunity, of the difficulties, the impossibilities of fusion between two human beings.” — Anais Nin
- “Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.” — Anais Nin
Anais Nin Quotes on Courage
- “It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” — Anais Nin
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anais Nin
- “What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.” — Anais Nin
- “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” — Anais Nin
- “I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits” — Anais Nin
Anais Nin Quotes on Dreams
- “The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.” — Anais Nin
- “The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.” — Anais Nin
- “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” — Anais Nin
- “Dreams are necessary to life.” — Anais Nin
- “I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself. I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: ‘Excuse me, it was all a dream,’ and by that time I may have found one who will say: ‘Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.’” — Anais Nin
- “The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.” — Anais Nin
- “I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.” — Anais Nin
- “Dreams are essential to life.” — Anais Nin
Anais Nin Quotes on Change
- “I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.” — Anais Nin
- “I don’t tell the truth any more to those who can’t make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.” — Anais Nin
- “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
- “I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.” — Anais Nin
- “When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical beauty. Have they based their love on each other’s thoughts? Who can weary of thoughts which change every day?” — Anais Nin
- “Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I cant resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open.” — Anais Nin
- “I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.” — Anais Nin
Anais Nin Quotes on Life
- “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
- “Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.” — Anais Nin
- “The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.” — Anais Nin
- “You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.” — Anais Nin
- “The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.” — Anais Nin
- “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.” — Anais Nin
- “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception.” — Anais Nin
- “The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anais Nin
- “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
- “The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.” — Anais Nin
- “Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.” — Anais Nin
- “Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.” — Anais Nin
- “Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.” — Anais Nin
- “Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.” — Anais Nin
Anais Nin Quotes on Death
- “People living deeply have no fear of death.” — Anais Nin
- “I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” — Anais Nin
- “Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.” — Anais Nin
- “Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.” — Anais Nin
- “Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.” — Anais Nin
Woman Anais Nin Quotes
- “I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.” — Anais Nin
- “I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.” — Anais Nin
- “There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.” — Anais Nin
- “I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.” — Anais Nin
- “For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.” — Anais Nin
- “If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man’s fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men.” — Anais Nin
- “Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.” — Anais Nin
- “How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.” — Anais Nin
- “I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated.” — Anais Nin
- “It’s all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.” — Anais Nin
- “We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.” — Anais Nin
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