381 Quotes by Angela Carter

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.