Anais Nin Shorts

Description: With this image, we celebrate American writer Anais Nin.

Description: An Anais Nin quote for writers everywhere.

Description: Anaïs Nin portrait and a quote of Talmudic origin: We Don’t See Things As They Are, We See Them As We Are

Description: This blunt but striking quote is one that reveals the depth of insight of its writer who was famous for provocative writing — Anaïs Nin (1903–1977). Nin was a French-born American author, diarist, and essayist famous for her posthumous publication of personal diaries and her pioneering works of female erotica. While she did not consider herself an activist, she was widely viewed as a feminist icon for her unapologetic exploration of female desire, inner emotional lives, and self-revelation long before such themes were widely accepted in mainstream literature per Wikipedia.

Description: Anias nin quote, “I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” ― Anais Nin Watercolor red hair mermaid pink typography

Description: A quote to live by.

Description: Anaïs Nin quote: If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Description: Sea and Anaïs Nin quote: The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

Description: Design features a hand-sketched mermaid with this quote: “I must be a mermaid ... I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” ― Anaïs Nin

Description: Anais Nin portrait with the quote: We son't see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Description: Anais Nin: “The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself”

Description: A monochrome depiction of a mermaid swimming, rendered in white against a black background. The text "I must be a mermaid" is displayed above the figure, and the quote "I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. - Anais Nin" is positioned below. The mermaid is detailed with scales and flowing hair.

Description: Anaïs Nin portrait and quote: I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

Description: Hawk flying and an Anaïs Nin quote: We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Description: Anaïs Nin quote: “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.”

Description: Anaïs Nin portrait and a quote of Talmudic origin: We Don’t See Things As They Are, We See Them As We Are

Description: White lotus and an Anaïs Nin quote: And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Description: Blue Sea and an Anaïs Nin quote: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Description: Anaïs Nin quote: We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Description: Anaïs Nin quote: If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Description: Anaïs Nin quote: “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”

Description: Anaïs Nin quote: “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”