Anna Kavan Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
April 10, 1901 – December, 5, 1968.

Anna Kavan was a British novelist, short story writer and painter. Originally publishing under her first married name, Helen Ferguson, she adopted the name Anna Kavan in 1939, not only as a nom de plume but as her legal identity.

Also known as Novelist

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

Anna Kavan
- Life
- Hurt
- Afraid
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.

Anna Kavan
- Hope
- Wait
- Court

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

Anna Kavan
- Living
- Confusing
- Planes
At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.

Anna Kavan
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 are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.

Anna Kavan
- Life
- Death
- Mountains
I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.

Anna Kavan
- Dragons
- Met
- Telephone
Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place.

Anna Kavan
- Reality
- Fear
- Place
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.

Anna Kavan
- Mind
- Ideas
- Confused

Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.

Anna Kavan
- Listening
- Silence
- Quiet
Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me.

Anna Kavan
- Reality
- Unknown