Katherine Mansfield Prelude Quotes & Sayings

15. "Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."
— Richard Evelyn Byrd

Perhaps God's so deeply ashamed of us, of something we did, that he's wishing himself to forget. — Kazuo Ishiguro

For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: I will understand this, too, I will understand everything. — Primo Levi

Sometimes it's harder than you think. There's always this fear that even though I may know what I want, I may never actually make it a reality. Sometimes it's more complicated than just wanting something and making it happen. — Kandi Steiner

I'm not crying because you're mean. I just can't imagine how incredibly painful it must be to be you. — Elizabeth Wurtzel