Author: Katherine Mansfield

Quotes

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

- Katherine Mansfield

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

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

- Katherine Mansfield

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

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

- Katherine Mansfield

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

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

- Katherine Mansfield

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

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

- Katherine Mansfield

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.

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

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

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

- Katherine Mansfield

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.

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

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

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

- Katherine Mansfield

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