Anais Nin Quotes
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
- Anais Nin
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
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.
- Anais Nin
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anaïs Nin
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.
- Anais Nin
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
- Anais Nin
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
- Anais Nin
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
- Anaïs Nin
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.
- Anais Nin
Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one’s courage.
- Anais Nin
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin


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