Author: Anais Nin

Quotes

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.

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

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

- Anais Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

- Anais Nin

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

- Anais Nin

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

- Anais Nin

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

- Anais Nin

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

- 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.

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

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

- Anais Nin

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