Katherine Mansfield Quotes

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

Friendship, Great, Nothing

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

Love, True, Tell

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

Truth, Yourself, Care

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

Life, Good, Regret

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

Love, Rain, Feeling

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

Change, Life, Attitude

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

Capable, Becoming

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

Understand, Others, Capable

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

Alone, Another, Until

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

Words, Learned, Once

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

Same, Another, Lives

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

Moment, Around, Letter

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
Katherine Mansfield

Change, Life, Everything

I'm a writer first and a woman after.
Katherine Mansfield

Woman, After, Writer

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

Laugh, Learn, Ourselves

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

Life, Habit, Marvel

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

Nothing, Writing, Far

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

Others, Couples, Month

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

Keep, Face, Asking

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

Laugh, Afraid, Learn

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.
Katherine Mansfield

Death, Order, Though

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

Writing, Small, Try

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Biography

Nationality: New Zealander

Type: Author

Born: October 14, 1888

Died: January 9, 1923

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