234 Quotes by Katherine Mansfield

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you – you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences – like rags and shreds of your very life.

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.

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.

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

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.

Outside the sky is light with stars.

I am poor – obscure – just eighteen years of age – with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart – oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape – of your sister.

Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy – so utterly without a sense of humor?