Katherine Mansfield Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

The mind I love must have wild places.

If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.

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

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 of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love.

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

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

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

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

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

Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.

I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvellously serene, and small stars, very merry for some reason of their own. It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to these miracles.

It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most.

What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise

You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.

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.