SubscribeAnais Nin Love Quotes and Sayings
Posted on Oct 05, 2008 under A, Anais Nin, Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell | No CommentAnais Nin Love Quotes and Sayings
1. 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.
2. Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
3. 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.
4. Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Anaïs Nin (Spanish pronunciation: [anaˈiz ˈnin]; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell) (February 21, 1903, Neuilly-sur-Seine – January 14, 1977) was a French author who became famous for her published journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death. Nin is also famous for her erotica.
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Famous Sayings by Anaïs Nin
1. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
2. Dreams are necessary to life.
3. Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
4. Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
5. Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
6. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
7. I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
8. If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
9. 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.
10. Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
11. Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
12. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
13. Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
14. The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
15. 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.
16. We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
17. When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
18. When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
