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 o…

- Anna Kavan

The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and browbeaten those around hi…

- Anna Kavan

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 stand it either, so they made a…

- Anna Kavan

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

- Anna Kavan

I had a friend, a lover. Or did I dream it? So many dreams are crowding upon me now that I can scarcely tell true from false: dreams like light impri…

- Anna Kavan

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

- Anna Kavan

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 m…

- Anna Kavan

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

- Anna Kavan

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 reluctant love drained p…

- Anna Kavan