Anais Nin Quotes & Sayings

42 most famous Anais Nin quotes and sayings (author). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

“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.”

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”

“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 witherings, of tarnishings.”