Tag: Anais Nin

“Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” – Anais Nin

“All of us have a maternal side, but it is not so obvious in our appearance. We pride ourselves in not even looking like wives, but more like mistresses. The femme fatale is our ideal in appearance.” – 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

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

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

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

“There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.” – Anais Nin