Anais Nin World Quotations

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

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

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself. I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: ‘Excuse me, it was all a dream,’ and by that time I may have found one who will say: ‘Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.’

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

I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world ...

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.

I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.

Each friend represents a world in us.

I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.

All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, & you believe you are living.