Katherine Mansfield Quotes

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."

(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)

Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life-' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.

'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.

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

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.

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

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

The mind I love most 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 fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.