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Quotes from Anais Nin

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
- Anais Nin
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.
- Anais Nin
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
- Anais Nin
You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
- Anais Nin
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
- Anais Nin
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
- Anais Nin
I love your silences, they are like mine.
- Anais Nin
In my childhood diary I wrote: "I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.
- Anais Nin
What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.
- Anais Nin
One handles truths like dynamite.
- Anais Nin
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
- Anais Nin
Anxiety is loves greatest killer.
- Anais Nin