Katherine Mansfield Wish Quotations

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.

The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

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.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.