Quotes by : Anna Kavan

There are certain shocks which, if sufficiently strong, seem to have power to destroy the balance of....

All at once I feel desperate, outraged. Why am I alone doomed to spend nights of torment, with an unseen....

A human being can only endure depression up to a certain point; when this point of saturation is reached....

The years passed like the steps of a staircase leading lower and lower. I did not walk any more in the....

The sight of the wall of water outside reassured me, giving me the idea that it made very little difference....

Foreword: Life is tension or the result of tension: without tension the creative impulse cannot exist.....

The last time she had seen him in the flesh, all the vital force of his life stripped away, his sharpened....

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

But to whom can one appeal when one does not even know where to find the judge? How can one ever hope....

My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension....