Quotes from Anais Nin
I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.
— Anais Nin
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
— Anais Nin
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
— Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
— Anais Nin
Stories do not end.
— Anais Nin
Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
— Anais Nin
... only love begets love.
— Anais Nin
The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
— Anais Nin
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
— Anais Nin
The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
— Anais Nin
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
— Anais Nin
One handles truths like dynamite.
— Anais Nin