Quote

Who is to decide between 'Let it be' and 'Force it'?

Katherine Mansfield

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Katherine Mansfield
Age: 34 †
Born: 1888
Born: October 14
Died: 1923
Died: January 9
Diarist
Poet
Writer
Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
Decide
Force

More quotes by Katherine Mansfield

Image
Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
Katherine Mansfield
Image
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
Katherine Mansfield
Image
There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.
Katherine Mansfield
Image
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
Image
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
Image
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield
Image
That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?
Katherine Mansfield
Image
I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love.
Katherine Mansfield
Image
England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
Katherine Mansfield
Image
You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.
Katherine Mansfield
Image
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.
Katherine Mansfield
Image
Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must.
Katherine Mansfield
Image
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Katherine Mansfield
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
Katherine Mansfield
Image
There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.
Katherine Mansfield
Image
To long for everything: sorrow to accept everything: joy.
Katherine Mansfield
Image
Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.
Katherine Mansfield
Image
Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.
Katherine Mansfield