Death Quote by Anaïs Nin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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 not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life.”

“We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.”

“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.”

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”

“They died together; they'll always be remembered together. It's decided, once and for all. He was hers.”

“And death doesn't wait for you when your rested and ready. It sneaks up on you when your exhausted and hungry and cold and so scared you can't even see straight”

“Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.”

“Shine in any season of your life!”

“The earth was a grave: our life was lent to it by its elements and had to be returned: a time came when the simple elements seemed to long for release from the complicated forms of life, when every element of every cell said, "Enough!" The planet was our mother and our burial ground. No wonder the human spirit wished to leave. Leave this prolific belly. Leave also this great tomb. Passion for the infinite caused by the terror, by timor mortis, needed material appeasement.”

“Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound.”