Katherine Mansfield Quotes
"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Understanding, Want)
"Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Death, Journey, Order)
"Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: People, Satisfaction, Writing)
"When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Importance)
"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Books, Pleasure, Reading)
"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Change, Life, Attitude)
"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Change, Life)
"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Friendship, Comfort, Nothing, Privilege)
"Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Life, Habit)
"I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Want)
"What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Difficulties, Want)
"I'm a writer first and a woman after."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: First, Woman, Writer)
"If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Love)
"It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask."
- Katherine Mansfield
"Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Nothing, Writing)
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Life, Energy, Regret, Waste)
"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Consciousness, Meaning, Words)
"Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Budgets)
"This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment."
- Katherine Mansfield
"I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Love, Feeling, Rain, Want)
"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Truth, Act, Care, Earth, Opinions, Risk)