Explore Quotes by Anais Nin

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

Ordinary life does not interest me.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

My diary seems to keep me whole.

The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation.

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

Adolescence is like cactus.

When you possess light within, you see it externally.

But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.

Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

Each friend represents a world in us.

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.