Quote Collection: 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. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

We have been poisoned by fairytales.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Quote Collection: 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.”

“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.”

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."