Anais Nin Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Anais Nin quotes, Anais Nin sayings, and Anais Nin proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love. 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
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes. Anais Nin
The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us. Anais Nin
Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist. Anais Nin
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. Anais Nin
I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art. Anais Nin
I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison. Anais Nin
Solitude may rust your words. Anais Nin
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again. Anais Nin
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. Anaïs Nin
Dreams are necessary to life. 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
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Anais Nin
People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is by this meeting that a new workd is born. Anaïs Nin
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin
Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met. Anais Nin
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself? Anais Nin
He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it. Anais Nin
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Anais Nin
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. Anaïs Nin
People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin
People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin
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
Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death. Anais Nin
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. Anais Nin
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. 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 withering, of tarnishing. Anais Nin