I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses. Katherine Mansfield More Quotes by Katherine Mansfield More Quotes From Katherine Mansfield Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor? Katherine Mansfield sense-of-humor middle class I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see. Katherine Mansfield real cities play I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees. Katherine Mansfield passion work believe Regret is an appalling waste of time. Katherine Mansfield wasting-time waste regret Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel. Katherine Mansfield life-lesson habit life Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand. Katherine Mansfield emotion wind moving The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it. Katherine Mansfield ostriches important wish To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy. Katherine Mansfield sorrow joy long I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. Katherine Mansfield superficial understanding want The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light. Katherine Mansfield light moon writing 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 mask lonely loneliness I'm a writer first and a woman after. Katherine Mansfield firsts Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. Katherine Mansfield women couple months 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. Katherine Mansfield near-death fearful easy Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known. Katherine Mansfield silence mother mean Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it. Katherine Mansfield dog courage running I love this place; I love mountains and big skies and forests. And the weather is still supremely beautiful even though the lower peaks are powdered with fresh snow. But Heavens! What sun. It never has an ending. I am basking at this minute - half past four - too hot without a hat, & the sky is that transparent blue only to be seen in autumn - the forest trees steeped in light. Katherine Mansfield autumn beautiful past In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire. Katherine Mansfield fire winter snow I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at or, if they do, they stop to please me or to humor me or to keep the peace. Katherine Mansfield please-me fun people Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. Katherine Mansfield
