Anais Nin Quotes (86+)

There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it.

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

What I give form to in daylight is only one percent of what I have seen in darkness.

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world.

We don't grow when things are easy; we grow when we face challenges.

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, and stumble from defeat to defeat.