Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
ANAIS NINWe don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
More Anais Nin Quotes
-
-
Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
ANAIS NIN -
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NIN -
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
ANAIS NIN -
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
ANAIS NIN -
You cannot save people, you can only love them.
ANAIS NIN -
Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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 -
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
ANAIS NIN -
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
ANAIS NIN -
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
ANAIS NIN -
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
ANAIS NIN -
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
ANAIS NIN -
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
ANAIS NIN -
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NIN -
You fall in love with people’s minds.
ANAIS NIN -
In chaos, there is fertility.
ANAIS NIN -
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
ANAIS NIN -
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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 -
I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
ANAIS NIN -
I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
ANAIS NIN -
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
ANAIS NIN -
Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
ANAIS NIN -
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
ANAIS NIN -
Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
ANAIS NIN -
The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
ANAIS NIN