234 Quotes by Katherine Mansfield

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

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

I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvellously serene, and small stars, very merry for some reason of their own. It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to these miracles.

The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

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

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.

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

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....

In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.