Anais Nin

America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.

Anais Nin

Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.

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

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. 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.

Anais Nin

Awareness hurts. Relationships hurts. Life hurts. But to float, to drift, to live in the dream does not hurt.

Anais Nin

But I am not sure what this self is. For the moment I seem to be busy tearing down what I was.

Anais Nin

But my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again.

Anais Nin

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Anais Nin

Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.

Anais Nin

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

Anais Nin