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 NINShame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
More Anais Nin Quotes
-
-
I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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 -
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 -
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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 -
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
ANAIS NIN -
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
ANAIS NIN -
Your eyes make me shy.
ANAIS NIN -
I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
ANAIS NIN -
You fall in love with people’s minds.
ANAIS NIN -
I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
ANAIS NIN -
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NIN -
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 -
We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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 naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
ANAIS NIN