Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murrywas a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In 1917 she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth14 October 1888
life success understanding
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy- deep down. All is well.
understanding want superficial
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.
fine further gets hand rare warming
E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.
accept life suffering
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
asking friend future hope present share treating
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
alone beneath lower mask prepared terrible until yes
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.
arms brief letter moment
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment
begin failures immense importance means
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.
becomes life
Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
best delight infinite work
To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
appalling build good regret waste
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
ask asking friend future hope present share treating
I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses
friendship sacred truth-is
The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
mad unhappy wish
What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead—yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.