Anais Nin Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

  Anais Nin

  Freedom, Reality, Imagination

• There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Kissing, Two

• Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

  Anais Nin

  Long, Perfect, Imagination

  "Henry and June: from the unexpurgated diary of Anaïs Nin". Book by Anais Nin, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p. 24, 1986.

• 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

• I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

  Anais Nin

  Stars, Hair, Imagination

• The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Imagination, Black

• You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.

  Anais Nin

  Imagination, Demand, My Imagination

• Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

  Anais Nin

  Imagination, Body, Idealism

• At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.

  Anais Nin

  Suicide, June, Imagination

• People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Indulge In, People

• The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

  Anais Nin

  Hurt, Imagination, Doe

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