While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“It was always the same now, the ghost always coming between her and her life in the world, so much more important,… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“There are certain shocks which, if sufficiently strong, seem to have power to destroy the balance of life. Such a shock would… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“For the first time in her life she could talk openly of the things which interested her and were important to her.… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“I'd never been anything but 'in transit' through my life. In a sudden, complete, instantaneous vision, I saw it as a train… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“An intolerable pain pierced him. He was totally lost without her...estranged from his life utterly, and from the world. This was the… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much. — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“She felt herself alone, lost like a stranger in some fantastic country whose language and mode of life were alike incomprehensible, surrounded… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“I was oppressed by the sense of universal strangeness, by the chill of approaching catastrophe, the menace of ruins suspended above; and… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
A terrible cold world of ice and death had replaced the living world we had always known. Outside there was only the… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“The last time she had seen him in the flesh, all the vital force of his life stripped away, his sharpened face… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Foreword: Life is tension or the result of tension: without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached. — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“There is, I believe, a kind of telepathy between the condemned: a sort of intuitive recognition which can even make itself felt through the… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
I had a friend, a lover. Or did I dream it? So many dreams are crowding upon me now that I can scarcely tell… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“It was always the same now, the ghost always coming between her and her life in the world, so much more important, since that… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Their eyes met for a moment. And the glance that flickered between them had been a wordless message of understanding, the affirmation of a… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“She looked, and saw the black, domed sky arching over her head. And her heart dilated; she felt the great black dome in her… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“An intolerable pain pierced him. He was totally lost without her...estranged from his life utterly, and from the world. This was the world into… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight.” — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“In a polished surface of metal I happen to notice my reflected face; it wears a pale, beaten lonely look, eyes looking out at… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place. — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“All at once I feel desperate, outraged. Why am I alone doomed to spend nights of torment, with an unseen jailer, when all the… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
![“A terrible cold world of ice and death had replaced the living world we had always known. Outside there was only the deadly cold, the frozen vacuum of an ice age, life reduced to mineral crystals. [. . .] I drove at great speed, as if escaping, pretending we could escape. Although I knew there was…” quote by Anna Kavan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/25b/anna-kavan-8510_age_a-terrible-cold-world-of-ice-and-death-h_2839081.jpg)
