Quotes by Katherine Mansfield

“There were all her feelings for him, sharp and defined, one as true as the other. And there was the other, this hatred, just as real as the rest. She could have done her feelings up in little packe...”

“We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alterna...”

“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 is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”

“When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”

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

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

“We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.”

“Could we change our attitude we should not only see life differently but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a chang...”

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

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

“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.”

“To work — to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.”

“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.”

“If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so simple — you salt them well, put them aside and have patience. But with love, you...”

“I'm a writer first & a woman after.”

“I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to become a writer can afford to indulge in it. You can't get...”

“It's an infernal nuisance to love Life as I do. I seem to love it more as time goes on rather than less. It never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. I do hope I'll be able to keep in it l...”

“Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. This is what life has taught me.”

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