Anaïs Nin: Trending quotes (page 13)

“There will never be darkness because in both of us there's always movement, renewal, surprises. I have never known stagnation. Not even introspection has been a still experience…”

Anaïs Nin

August 1932 Henry and June
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“Man can never know the kind of loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in a woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. The woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which he has bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love is a taking of man within her, and act of birth and rebirth, of child bearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to BE. But for a woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment when man rests inside of her.”

Anaïs Nin

May 25, 1932
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

Love , Pleasure , World , Art

“To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.”

Anaïs Nin

August 1932 Henry and June
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

Lie

“He was insane with anger. Or is all insanity anger?”

Anaïs Nin

The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

Anger

“Passivity, like the passivity of India induced by religion, is destructive both to human life and to art.”

Anaïs Nin book The Novel of the Future

The Novel of the Future (1969)

Life , Religion , Art

“No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness.”

Anaïs Nin

June 18, 1934
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

Love , Men

“When she did finally fall asleep it was the restless sleep of the night watchman continuously aware of danger and of the treacheries of time seeking to cheat her by permitting clocks to strike the passing hours when she was not awake to grasp their contents.”

Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love

A Spy in the House of Love (1954)

Sleep , Time , Cheating , Night

“Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way.”

Anaïs Nin

June 1932 Henry and June
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

Way , Imagination , Perfection

“For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.”

Anaïs Nin book The Novel of the Future

The Novel of the Future (1969)

Way , Reality

“I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.”

Anaïs Nin

February 5, 1934
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

Life

“Most fiction writers uses dreams decoratively without relating them to daily life, but the contemporary writer is becoming more expert at detecting the influence of one upon the other.”

Anaïs Nin book The Novel of the Future

The Novel of the Future (1969)

Life , Dreams

“Solitude may rust your words.”

Anaïs Nin book Collages (novel)

Collages (1964), p. 116

Solitude

“We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.”

Anaïs Nin book The Novel of the Future

The Novel of the Future (1969)

Dreams , Reality

“Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.”

Anaïs Nin book House of Incest

House of Incest (1936)

World

“The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.”

Anaïs Nin book The Novel of the Future

The Novel of the Future (1969)

World , Personality

“Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct, an excrescence of love, the song I sing, the joy which must explode, the overabundance — that is all!”

Anaïs Nin

Oct. 21, 1934
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

Love , Life , Art , Singing

“The times in his studio when he washed his hands and they smoked, for his hands were so warm and the water so cold.”

Anaïs Nin

The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

Water , Time

“I think that natural truths will cease to be spat at us like insults, that aesthetics will once more be linked with ethics, and that people will become aware that in casting out aesthetics that they also cast out a respect for human life, a respect for creation, a respect for spiritual values. Aesthetics was an expression of man's need to be in love with his world. The cult of ugliness is a regression. It destroys our appetite, our love for our world.”

Anaïs Nin book The Novel of the Future

The Novel of the Future (1969)

Love , Life , People , Truth

“I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.”

Anaïs Nin

The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

Sense , Strong

“I feel a fatigue of the tongue seeking to utter impossible things until it twists itself into a knot and chokes me. I feel a fatigue at this mass of nerves seeking to uphold a world that is falling apart. I feel a fatigue at feeling, at the fervor of my dreams, the fever of my thought, the intensity of my hallucinations. A fatigue at the sufferings of others and my own. I feel my own blood thundering inside of me, I feel the horror of falling into abysms. But you and I would always fall together and I would not be afraid. We would fall into abysms, but you would carry your phosphorescences to the very bottom of the abysms. We could fall together and ascend together, far into space. I was always exhausted by my dreams, not because of the dreams, but because of the fear of not being able to return. I do not need to return. I will find you everywhere. You alone can go wherever I go, into the same mysterious regions. You too know the language of the nerves. You will always know what I am saying even if I do not.”

Anaïs Nin book Under a Glass Bell

"Je suis le plus malade des Surrealistes"
Under a Glass Bell (1944)

World , Fear , Dreams , Feeling