Top 22 Quotes by Katherine Mansfield

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

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

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

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.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

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

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.