Anais Nin – Kinksters' Quotes

Anxiety

quotemaster — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:00:28 +0000

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.

– Anaïs Nin

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/03/anais-nin-love-debbie-millman-1/

Hibernating

quotemaster — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 06:00:33 +0000

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.

– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/105928-you-live-like-this-sheltered-in-a-delicate-world-and

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do.

quotemaster — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:00:33 +0000

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them”.

– Anais Nin

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98518-i-am-lonely-yet-not-everybody-will-do-i-don-t

The true liberation of eroticism

quotemaster — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:00:25 +0000

The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million objects of it, situations, atmospheres, and variations.

We have, first of all, to dispense with guilt concerning its expansion, then remain open to it’s surprises, varied expressions, and (to add my personal formula for the full enjoyment of it) fuse it with individual love and passion for a particular human being, mingle it with dreams, fantasies, and emotion for it to attain its highest potency.

– Anais Nin

Life is a process of becoming

quotemaster — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 09:00:25 +0000

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

– Anais Nin

I refuse to be the leader.

quotemaster — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:00:52 +0000

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.

– Anais Nin

And the day came

quotemaster — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 09:00:44 +0000

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

– Anais Nin

The truly faithless one…

quotemaster — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:00:41 +0000

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

– Anais Nin

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin

Shame

quotemaster — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:00:52 +0000

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

– Anias Nin

As quoted in Why Men Fall Out of Love : The Secrets They Don’t Tell (2005) by Michael French, p. 142