Inspiration Quote by Anaïs 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.”

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”

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

“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.”

“A voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it would ring in me with eternal resonance, a voice rusty with the sound of curses and the hoarse cries that issue from the delta in the last paroxysm of orgasm.”

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”

“The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.”

“Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”

“Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.”

“It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how ot do it, and Virtue is doing it.”