Anais Nin Quotes

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before… to test your limits… to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.