234 Quotes by Katherine Mansfield

We are solitary creatures au fond. It hapens so rarely that one feels another understands. But when one does feel it, it’s not only a joy, it’s a help and comfort in dark moments.

Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can’t imagine. It’s none at all to write to those who don’t really count.

I am always conscious of this secret disruption in me.

You know the feeling that a great writer gives you: my spirit has been fed and refreshed; it has partaken of something new.

Saw the sun rise. A lovely apricot sky with flames in it and then solemn pink. Heavens, how beautiful... I feel so full of love to-day after having seen the sun rise.

I’m a writer first and a woman after.

That is the fearful part of having been near death. One knows how easy it is to die. The barriers that are up for everybody else are down for you, and you’ve only to slip through.

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.