Katherine Mansfield Quotes

I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

You can get connections in lots of ways. You can get it by a friendship. You can get it by a dog. You can get it by a child. You can get it by being attached to a cause. You can get it by having huge problems and sharing those problems with other people.

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.

There's lots of kinds of chains. You can't see most of them, the one's that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link. Sometimes the links are weak, snap like this one did. That's another funny thing, now that I think of it. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all.

Nobody can survive alone, in this world. People have bonds, and sometimes those bonds are broken. And then, that person goes spinning off and connects with someone else.

A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.

Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that freedom remains intact: marriage means that freedom has been dropped. You have bargained for permanence, for security, and you have paid for it with freedom.

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

People are shaped by friendship as much as by romance.

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent sort of thing to deal with that people casually refer to as 'friendship,' as if that were the end of the matter.

I believe that there is an important part of every human being that is defined in terms of their significant other: how we choose our partner, and how we behave when we are with them. And that is the part that interests me. How that part of the personality is forged doesn't just interest me, it fascinates me.

How much of our lives is consumed with meeting people, attracting people, keeping people and missing people? Usually, when everything is resolved romantically in one of my books, the characters stop talking in my head, and I stop telling the story.

Everybody needs somebody.

How we need another soul to cling to.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore how difficult it is for people to be together.

I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.

You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way.