Katherine Mansfield Quotes

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is ...

I do not know why I have such a fancy for this little café. It's dirty and sad, sad. It's not as if ...

You have only to say one word and I would know your voice among all other voices. I don't know what ...

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

A big bee, a golden furry fellow, crept into a freesia, and the delicate flower leaned over, swung, ...

Sleeping was her latest discovery. 'It's so wonderful. One simply shuts one's eyes, that's all. It's...

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - readi...

Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. ...

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask yo...

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

I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.

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

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do...

Query: Why am I so bitter against Life? And why do I see her as a rag-picker on the American cinema,...

I always felt that the great high privilege relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to ex...

Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caug...

Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He qui...

…Oh dear, I sometimes think…whatever would I do if anything happened…But thinking's no good, is it, ...

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile in...

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

I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and h...

Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it is good only for wallowing.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It i...

I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal fo...

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is ...

There were all her feelings for him, sharp and defined, one as true as the other. And there was the ...

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? Th...

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

I am treating you as my friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to ...

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have ano...

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort neede...

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to ex...

The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy g...

I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It ...

I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moo...

Saw the sun rise. A lovely apricot sky with flames in it and then solemn pink. Heavens, how beautifu...

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act...

The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass,...

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy ...