Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
ANAIS NINIf 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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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.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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