Anaïs Nin: Quotes about love

Anaïs Nin was writer of novels, short stories, and erotica. Explore interesting quotes on love.

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“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.”

“You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.”

“You cannot save people, you can only love them.”

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

“I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.”

“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.”

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It creates the failures. 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.”

February 1947 The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 4 (1944-1947), p. 185
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.”

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

Source: Henry And June

“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”

“Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.”

“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”

“What I cannot love, I overlook.”

Variant: What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

“The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.”

February, 1932
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.”

May 30, 1934
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Context: Oh, God, I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love. I swim in the sky; I float; my body is full of flowers, flowers with fingers giving me acute, acute caresses, sparks, jewels, quivers of joy, dizziness, such dizziness. Music inside of one, drunkenness. Only closing the eyes and remembering, and the hunger, the hunger for more, more, the great hunger, the voracious hunger, and thirst.

“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.”

Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus

Source: Delta of Venus

“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

“In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.”

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.”

Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love

Source: A Spy in the House of Love (1954)

“If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses”

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934