Anaïs Nin Quote

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.


D. H. Lawrence : An Unprofessional Study (1932); also quoted in The Mirror and the Garden : Realism and Reality in the Writings of Anais Nin (1971) by Evelyn J. Hinz, p. 40


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....

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....

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....

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....