Anais Nin Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Animal, Stronger

• Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Shame, About Yourself

  "Why Men Fall Out of Love : The Secrets They Don't Tell" by Michael French, (p. 142), 2005.

• The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

  Anais Nin

  Children, Real, Lying

• I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Men, Mind

• Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Imagination, Feelings

• But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Dark, Moments

• We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness -- sensuality in which the whole being can participate.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Twists, Passionate

• The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.

  Anais Nin

  Children, Lying, Men

• The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million objects of it, situations, atmospheres, and variations. We have, first of all, to dispense with guilt concerning its expansion, then remain open to it's surprises, varied expressions, and mingle it with dreams, fantasies, and emotion for it to attain its highest potency.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Lying, Expression

• To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Insanity, Courses

  "Henry and June: From A Journal of Love: the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin". Book by Anaïs Nin, 1986.

• Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Reality, Organization

• I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Soul, Costumes

  "Henry and June". Book by Anais Nin, 1986.

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