Anais Nin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”

“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”

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

“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”

“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”

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

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

“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.”