Best Katherine Mansfield Quotes
- But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next we'll sit in… Day
- There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes. Aspect
- How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the… Bits
- What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. Asking
- Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction. All
- I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Always Felt
- 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.… Act
- 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… Appalling
- Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Attitude
- Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. Consciousness
- The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. All
- It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask… Alone
- I'm a writer first and a woman after. Firsts
- Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. Budgets
- Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing -… All
- The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance… Chance
- I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi. Driving
- When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. Afraid
- Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were… Absorbed
- I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead. Always Want
- I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body… Adore
- Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from… Big
- What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss… Absolute
- I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a small house, grass,… Act
- What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is… Absolutely
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