Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anais Nin

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

Anais Nin

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

Anais Nin

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Anais Nin

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

Anais Nin

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Anais Nin

Dreams are necessary to life.

Anais Nin

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Anais Nin

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Anais Nin

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anais Nin

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 postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Amanda Lindhout

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

Anne Carson

We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.

Anne Hathaway

I love the short-haired lifestyle.

Anne Frank

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

Anita Shreve

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

Anita Roddick

Not all revolutionaries set out to change the world per se; some set out to change their own worlds. And in so doing, they often change the way one person, or a few people, or whole communities, or entire nations or the world thinks and operates in some significant way.

Anita Roddick

Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

Andrew Young

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

Andrew Young

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

Andres Serrano

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

Andrej Pejic

My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!

Anaxagoras

The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

Chuck Palahniuk

Love and life belongs to great risk.

Chuck Palahniuk

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

Chuck Palahniuk

We just had a near-life experience!

Chuck Palahniuk

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.

Chuck Palahniuk

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Chuck Palahniuk

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

Chuck Palahniuk

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

Chuck Palahniuk

You are permanent, but this life is not.

Chuck Palahniuk

Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Chuck Palahniuk

There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.