Life Quotes Quote by Anais Nin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”

“We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.”

“There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.”

““Roads Go Ever On”

“All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”

“Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?”

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

“It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.”

“In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.”