Quotes by Katherine Mansfield

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

I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.

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 nobodys fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.

You have only to say one word and I would know your voice among all other voices. I dont know what it is - Ive often wondered - that makes your voice such a - haunting memory. . . . Do you remember that first afternoon we spent together at Kew Gardens? You were so surprised because I did not know the names of any flowers. I am still just as ignorant for all your telling me. But whenever it is very fine and warm, and I see some bright colours - its awfully strange - I hear your voice saying : Geranium, marigold and verbena. And I feel those three words are all I recall of some forgotten, heavenly language. . . .

Query: Why am I so bitter against Life? And why do I see her as a rag-picker on the American cinema, shuffling along wrapped in a filthy shawl with her old claws crooked over a stick?Answer: The direct result of the American cinema acting upon a weak mind.

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

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesnt always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? Whats the alternative? What do you want most to do? Thats what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

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

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? Thats what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? Thats 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 change in attitude.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy you cant build on it it is good only for wallowing.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you cant build on it its good only for wallowing in.

I want by understanding myself to understand others. 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.