Quotes by Nin, Anais

"Dreams are necessary to life."

Nin, Anais on dream
5 fans of this quote   

"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."

Nin, Anais on fathers   

"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."

Nin, Anais on friends and friendship
7 fans of this quote   

"A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked"

Nin, Anais on joy
5 fans of this quote   

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."

Nin, Anais on love
27 fans of this quote   

"Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm."

Nin, Anais on orgasm   

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Nin, Anais on attitude
30 fans of this quote   

"The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation."

Nin, Anais on pornography   

"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."

Nin, Anais on truth   

"Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her."

Nin, Anais on women   

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

Nin, Anais on action
6 fans of this quote   

"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."

Nin, Anais on action   

"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."

Nin, Anais on action
3 fans of this quote   

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

Nin, Anais on courage
10 fans of this quote   

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Nin, Anais on courage
10 fans of this quote   

"Als je niet ademt doorheen het schrijven, je niet uitschreeuwt in je schrijven of zingt in je schrijven; schrijf dan niet want daar heeft onze cultuur niets aan."

Nin, Anais on schrijven   

"Het is de functie van kunst om onze perceptie te veranderen. De dingen waarmee we vertrouwd zijn stoppen we met zien. De schrijver haalt de vertrouwde scene overhoop en als bij magie zien we er een nieuwe betekenis in."

Nin, Anais on kunst   

"Ik krijg mijn ideeën niet aan mijn bureau terwijl ik aan het schrijven ben, die krijg ik terwijl ik aan het leven ben."

Nin, Anais on ideeën   

"Wanneer we blindelings een religie, een politiek systeem of een literair dogma aanvaarden, worden we automaten. Dan stoppen we met groeien."

Nin, Anais on leven