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
Stories do not end.
— 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
Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
— Anais Nin
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
— Anais Nin
... only love begets love.
— Anais Nin
Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.
— Anais Nin
although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
— Anais Nin
In my childhood diary I wrote: "I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.
— Anais Nin
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
— Anais Nin