Anaïs Nin

'Anais Nin' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Famous quotes by Anais Nin:

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection"

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

"Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"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."

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together"

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

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

"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."

"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."

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

"People living deeply have no fear of death."

"Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live."

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

"Good things happen to those who hustle."

"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."

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

"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."