Anna Kavan Quotes
- Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me.
- To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and…
- What can I do now? What am I to become? How can I live in this world I'm condemned to but can't endure? They couldn't…
- My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of…
- Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.
- Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place.
- Sometimes a savage beauty lured me into the sun and I would start to love the danger a little. On these occasions I felt the…
- While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these wild…