“I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.”
More from Anaïs Nin on Life
“Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.”
“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he h...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smi...”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you ar...”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your...”