Quotes by Katherine Mansfield

"How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?"

"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."

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

"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change."

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

"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."