Anais Nin

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

Anais Nin

Doubt tortures me. There is a twist in me, my fear of interpretation.

Anais Nin

Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room.

Anais Nin

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. But I am more preoccupied with loving.

Anais Nin

For I am the kind of dangerous dreamer who executes all his reveries, wishes, words, promises, plans. The wildest and the lightest. A wish for me is not a game: it’s a creation.

Anais Nin

For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.

Anais Nin

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

Anais Nin

He had not touched me. He did not need to. His presence had affected me in such a way that I felt as if he had caressed me for a long time.

Anais Nin

He observed confusion and chaos, which I call living by one’s emotions instead of one’s mind.

Anais Nin

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

Anais Nin