Anais Nin quotes

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

— Anais Nin

“The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.”

— Anais Nin

“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”

— Anais Nin

“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.”

— Anais Nin

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

— Anais Nin

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

— Anais Nin

“Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.”

— Anais Nin

“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.”

— Anais Nin

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

— Anais Nin

“Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.”

— Anais Nin

“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”

— Anais Nin

“Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.”

— Anais Nin

“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”

— Anais Nin