Quotes by : Anaïs Nin

No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it....

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

The relief of opening one's hand and letting go was immense. But soon after, I tightened again. A desire....

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions,....

And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts,....

I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding.

For our anxiety is the one thing we cannot place on the shoulders of others, it suffocates them.

How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including....

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into....

Down the rusty bars of ladders to the undergrounds of the night propitious to the first man and woman....