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Anaïs Nin Quotes | Quotes said by Anaïs Nin

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #1

    ...then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #2

    [Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #3

    ¡Los ángeles del sexo! Son maravillosos precisamente por lo mucho que sorprenden, por lo mucho que cambian. Tú por ejemplo, con tu aspecto de que nunca te han tocado, puedo imaginarte mordiendo y arañando. Estoy seguro que te cambiaría hasta la voz. He visto cambiar tanto... Hay voces de mujer que suenan como ecos poéticos y sobrenaturales. Luego, cambian. Los ojos cambian. Creo que todas esas leyendas sobre personas que por la noche se transforman en animales -como la historia del hombre lobo, por ejemplo- fueron inventadas por hombres que vieron transformarse por la noche a las mujeres, a las criaturas idealizadas y veneradas, en animales, y las creyeron endemoniadas.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #4

    A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #5

    A voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it would ring in me with eternal resonance, a voice rusty with the sound of curses and the hoarse cries that issue from the delta in the last paroxysm of orgasm.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #6

    All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #7

    And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #8

    And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of transmuting into thoughts, words, into exquisite abstractions, mathematics of emotion in place of violent impact, the volcanic eruptions of fever, lust and delight.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #9

    And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.
    What will you do after you have revealed all there is to know about June? Truth. What ferocity in your quest of it. You destroy and you suffer. In some strange way I am not with you, I am against you. We are destined to hold two truths. I love you and I fight you. And you, the same. We will be stronger for it, each of us, stronger with our love and our hate. When you caricature and nail down and tear apart, I hate you. I want to answer you, not with weak or stupid poetry but with a wonder as strong as your reality. I want to fight your surgical knife with all the occult and magical forces of the world.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #10

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

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #11

    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.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #12

    At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #13

    At five o'clock Paris always has a current of eroticism in the air.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #14

    At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #15

    Before, as soon as I came home from all sorts of places I would sit down and write in my journal. Now I want to write you, talk with you... I love when you say all that happens is good, it is good. I say all that happens is wonderful. For me it is all symphonic, and I am so aroused by living - god, Henry, in you alone I have found the same swelling of enthusiasm, the same quick rising of the blood, the fullness... Before, I almost used to think there was something wrong. Everybody else seemed to have the brakes on... I never feel the brakes. I overflow. And when I feel your excitement about life flaring, next to mine, then it makes me dizzy.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #16

    By the end of the evening I was like a man, terribly in love with her face and body, which promised so much, and I hated the self created in her by others. Others feel because of her; and because of her, others write poetry; because of her, others hate; others, like Henry, love her in spite of themselves.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #17

    Confront all the angry thoughts, feelings, the jealousies and condemnations, to find their cause, seek the root of such feelings and then operate on that. Need of security and reassurance can cause criminal acts.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #18

    Die Vergangenheit war wie jene altmodischen, mit Kräutern und Blumen gefüllten Duftkissen, deren Aroma die Kleider durchdringt und an ihnen haften bleibt.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #19

    Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, not perfection but a perfect moment like this one...

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #20

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

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #21

    Dreams are necessary to life.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #22

    Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #23

    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.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #24

    Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #25

    Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current between them.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #26

    Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #27

    Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. For example now, I hate the bank and everything connected with it. I also hate Dutch paintings, penis-sucking, parties, and cold rainy weather. But I am much more preoccupied with loving.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #28

    For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #29

    He had never seen her body so abandoned, so unconscious of all but the desire to be taken and satisfied. She bloomed under his caresses, no longer the girl but the woman already being born.

  • Anaïs Nin Quote #30

    He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures.

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