Katherine Mansfield Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Katherine Mansfield:

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

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

Katherine Mansfield

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Katherine Mansfield

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

Katherine Mansfield

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

Katherine Mansfield

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

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

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

Katherine Mansfield

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

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.

Katherine Mansfield

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

Katherine Mansfield

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

Katherine Mansfield

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

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

Katherine Mansfield

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.

Katherine Mansfield

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

Katherine Mansfield

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.

Katherine Mansfield

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Katherine Mansfield

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.

Katherine Mansfield

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Katherine Mansfield

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

Katherine Mansfield

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

Katherine Mansfield