Katherine Mansfield famous quotes

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.
-- Katherine Mansfield

#Reading #Secret #Happy Thoughts

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

#Friendship #Positive #Forgiveness

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Happiness

There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.
-- Katherine Mansfield

#Hero #Suffering #Limits

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

#Book #Reading #Literacy

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?
-- Katherine Mansfield

#Book #Joy #Lasts

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.
-- Katherine Mansfield

#Giving #Stupidity #Want

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

#Best Love #Mushrooms #Toadstools

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

#Love #Dream #Flower

I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.
-- Katherine Mansfield

#Want #Horror #Ask Me

What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?...
-- Katherine Mansfield

#Feelings #Littles #Sparks

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

#Love #Friendship #Real Friends

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

#Encouraging #Want #Becoming

The mind I love must have wild places.
-- Katherine Mansfield

#Mind

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

#Civilization #Body #Shut Up

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

#Acceptance #Accepting

Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.
-- Katherine Mansfield

#Earth #Hardest

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

#Journey #Order #Risk

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

#Laughing #Importance

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

#Rags #Littles #Fence

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

#Regret #Looks #Rules Of Life

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
-- Katherine Mansfield

#Fear #Giving #Birth

You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul.
-- Katherine Mansfield

#Soul #Curious #Wanted

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

#Happiness #Eye #Hands

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

#Writing #Imagine #Looking Back

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

#Life #Life Lesson #Habit

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

#Rain #Weather #Feelings

You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.
-- Katherine Mansfield

#Queens #Giving #Joy

The fields are snowbound no longer; There are little blue lakes and flags of tenderest green. The snow has been caught up into the sky- So many white clouds-and the blue of the sky is cold. Now the sun walks in the forest, He touches the bows and stems with his golden fingers; They shiver, and wake from slumber. Over the barren branches he shakes his yellow curls. Yet is the forest full of the sound of tears.... A wind dances over the fields. Shrill and clear the sound of her waking laughter, Yet the little blue lakes tremble And the flags of tenderest green bend and quiver.
-- Katherine Mansfield

#Laughter #Spring #Blue

All the wild sweetness of the flower Tangled against the wall. It was that magic, silent hour.... The branches grew so tall They twined themselves into a bower. The sun shown ... and the fall Of yellow blossom on the grass! You feel that golden rain? Both of you could not hold, alas, (both of you tried, in vain) A memory, stranger. So I pass.... It will not come again.
-- Katherine Mansfield

#Memories #Wall #Spring

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

#Sister #Heart #Chance

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

#Love #Promise #World