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Top 120 Katherine Mansfield Quotes (2024 Update)

Katherine Mansfield Quote: “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 Quote: “September is different from all other months. It is more magical. I feel the strange chemical change in the earth which produces mushrooms is the cause, too, of the extra ‘life’ in the air – a resilience, a sparkle.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “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.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “You might drop your heart into me and you’d never hear it touch bottom.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “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.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “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 Quote: “My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “I must say, I hate money. But it’s the lack of it I hate most.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “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 Quote: “Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “Outside the sky is light with stars.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been – Nothing!”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart – oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape – of your sister.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “I am poor – obscure – just eighteen years of age – with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “The mind I love must have wild places.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy – so utterly without a sense of humor?”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “I think I hate snow, downright hate it. There is something stupefying in it, a kind of ‘You must be worse before you’re better,’ and down it spins.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “Yes, my mother’s death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel – do you know what I mean – the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “I feel I must live alone, alone, alone – with artists only to touch the door. Every artist cuts off his ear and nails it on the outside of the door for the others to shout into.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “Children are unaccountable little creatures.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “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 Quote: “Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “The English language is damned difficult, but it’s also damned rich, and so clear and bright that you can search out the darkest places with it.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “I am always conscious of this secret disruption in me.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “I’m a writer first and a woman after.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “You know the feeling that a great writer gives you: my spirit has been fed and refreshed; it has partaken of something new.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “You put me in touch with my own soul.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “But the pear tree was as lovely as ever and as full of flower and as still.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “I have faded into the habit of secretly existing under your skin. It is unbelievably dark under there; I am happy.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “It was her peculiar curse to never really be unknown.”
Katherine Mansfield Quote: “Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.”
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