69 Quotes by Leonora Carrington

For years I have been a prisoner of the people of the set now called the Watchers. These great hypnotists have no idols, their magic is powerful and their appetite insatiable. They thrive on misery, but have great delicacy in choosing their victims. They evoke compassion but have none themselves. They possess unlimited knowledge but have no understanding, and this gives them the power of absolute, concentrated hate.

Do not fear those who bear you ill will, they soon shall fall in shame,” read Georgina, cackling with mirth.

The Antichrists are antichristing each other with antichristly ferocity so I must go and make peace.

Virginia returned home, followed by the cats. There, in the kitchen, she gave birth to seven little boars. Out of sentiment she kept the one most like Igname, and boiled the others for herself and the cats, as a funeral feast.

If you are in a condition of inferiority, I think it affects you very much creatively. You have incredible visions but you might be too bashful to show them. Your creativity becomes inhibited. I’ve always found women as individuals as stupid or as intelligent as men. I’ve never had any reason to find them otherwise.

With shrieks of adoration it flung itself on human breasts, ‘to crush you, to suck your life away. I cannot drag my own weight over the crust of the earth so you must carry me on your back so that in time you will be crippled with my weight.’ These words are in every heart in the mating season.

My soul?” replied Virginia. “I sold it a long time ago for a kilo of truffles.

Of course, she had to put up with being insulted by the cats at times, but she insulted them back just as loudly and in the same language.

Every mistake we make in these dances must be turned into a question, otherwise they are fatal to our human condition.