Top quotes by Anais Nin

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anais Nin

"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." - Anais Nin

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect." - Anais Nin

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin

"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are." - Anais Nin

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anais Nin

"How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?" - Anais Nin

"People living deeply have no fear of death." - Anais Nin

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it." - Anais Nin

"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together." - Anais Nin

"Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions." - Anais Nin

"We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls." - Anais Nin

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin

"Good things happen to those who hustle." - Anais Nin