Anais Nin Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

  Anais Nin

  Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Eye

• Your eyes make me shy

  Anais Nin

  Love, Crush, Eye

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

  Anais Nin

  Eye, Self Improvement, Doe

• Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Couple, Real

• With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.

  Anais Nin

  Eye, Men, Flames

• Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Children, Pain

• It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

  Anais Nin

  Ocean, Eye, Order

• If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

  Anais Nin

  Children, Mean, Eye

• When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body.

  Anais Nin

  Eye, Hands, Feet

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

• My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.

  Anais Nin

  Eye, Men, Race

  "House of Incest". Book by Anais Nin, 1936.

• Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.

  Anais Nin

  Zoos, Wall, Eye

• The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Eye, Responsibility

  "Moving to Antarctica : An Anthology of Women's Writing". Book by Margaret Kaminski, 1975.

• This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Eye, Men

  "Children of the Albatross". Book by Anais Nin, 1947.

• The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

  Anais Nin

  Travel, Blessed, Passion

• If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men.

  Anais Nin

  Mother, Children, Mean

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