Quotes By Anais Nin

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.

Dreams are necessary to life.

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

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

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

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

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

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

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.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.