Katherine Mansfield Quotes

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Katherine Mansfield



Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Katherine Mansfield



I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Katherine Mansfield



I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

Katherine Mansfield



I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Katherine Mansfield



I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Katherine Mansfield



I'm a writer first and a woman after.

Katherine Mansfield



If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Katherine Mansfield



It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Katherine Mansfield



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



Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

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



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



Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Katherine Mansfield



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



Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

Katherine Mansfield



The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Katherine Mansfield



This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.

Katherine Mansfield



What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

Katherine Mansfield



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