Anais Nin Quotes

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

For a long time, I didn't want to live.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

If God was dead, how could I feel this bad?

We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.

I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head.