Truth Quotes by Anais Nin

One handles truths like dynamite.

— Anais Nin

One may gain one truth at the expense of another.

— Anais Nin

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

— Anais Nin

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because…

— Anais Nin

The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.

— Anais Nin

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could…

— Anais Nin

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its…

— Anais Nin

I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.

— Anais Nin

“We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not…

— Anaïs Nin

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment…

— Anais Nin

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

— Anais Nin

If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly…

— Anais Nin

All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared…

— Anais Nin

The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and…

— Anais Nin

I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the…

— Anais Nin

When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for…

— Anais Nin

Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all…

— Anais Nin

“The truth is that this is the only way I can live: in two directions. I need two lives. I am two…

— Anaïs Nin

“What I corrupted was what is called the truth in favour of a more marvelous world. I could always improve on the…

— Anaïs Nin

“June, you have killed my sincerity too. I will never again know who I am, what I am, what I love, what…

— Anaïs Nin