Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
ANAIS NINPain is something to master, not to wallow in.
More Anais Nin Quotes
-
-
I love your silences, they are like mine.
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 -
The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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 -
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 -
Your eyes make me shy.
ANAIS NIN -
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NIN -
The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
ANAIS NIN -
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
ANAIS NIN -
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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 -
Write. Write until it stops hurting.
ANAIS NIN -
I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
ANAIS NIN -
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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







