Anais Nin Quotes About Tragedy

Quotes about: Tragedy

• There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Time, Illumination

  Diary entries, 1943.

• All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

  Anais Nin

  Tragedy, Trying, Mystery

  "Under a Glass Bell". Book by Anais Nin, 1944.

• We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.

  Anais Nin

  Powerful, Greatness, Feelings

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