Anais Nin Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Letting Go

• What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.

  Anais Nin

  Attitude, Character, Mean

• The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Sex, Laughter

• You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Feelings, Wave

• There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.

  Anais Nin

  Men, Two, Feelings

• The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

  Anais Nin

  Feelings, Vision, Creation

• Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Imagination, Feelings

• We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

  Anais Nin

  Feelings, Musical, Sound

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

• I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.

  Anais Nin

  Sex, Men, Feelings

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

• We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.

  Anais Nin

  Powerful, Greatness, Feelings

• ..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.

  Anais Nin

  Latin, Expression, Feelings

• She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.

  Anais Nin

  Taken, Feelings, Shadow

• [On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

  Anais Nin

  Cities, Paris, Giving

• atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

  Anais Nin

  Feelings, Criminals, Crime

• I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

  Anais Nin

  Feelings, Stronger, Reason

• 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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