Leila was sure ifhe partner didn’t come and she had to listen to that marvellous music and to watch the others sliding, gliding over the golden floor, she would die at least, or faint, or lift her arms and fly out of one of those dark windows that showed the stars.

— Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield Quotes

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

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

— Katherine Mansfield

Outside the sky is light with stars.

— Katherine Mansfield

To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.

— Katherine Mansfield

My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.

— Katherine Mansfield

You might drop your heart into me and you’d never hear it touch bottom.

— Katherine Mansfield

To work – to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

— Katherine Mansfield

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.

— Katherine Mansfield

What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

— Katherine Mansfield

Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.

— Katherine Mansfield

I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.

— Katherine Mansfield

Every time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die.

— Katherine Mansfield

There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.

— Katherine Mansfield

But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next we’ll sit in a forest and toast mushrooms on a hatpin...

— Katherine Mansfield

As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.

— Katherine Mansfield

Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.

— Katherine Mansfield

Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening – where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.

— Katherine Mansfield

Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream.

— Katherine Mansfield

I must say, I hate money. But it’s the lack of it I hate most.

— Katherine Mansfield

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
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