Anna Kavan Quotes

Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place.

Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me.

Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.

At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.

I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.

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 mind.

You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.

To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.

I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.

Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight.

I know that I'm doomed and I'm not going to struggle against my fate. I am only writing this down so that when you do not see me any more you will know that my enemy has finally triumphed.