Katherine Mansfield Quotes

Nothing really matters; love is all we need.

He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.

We are here to love. Not much else matters.

You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.

Because simplicity isn't the greatest thing in the world, but love.

Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter.

A complete need should not exist... love, life in common with loved ones?

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.

Everyone yearns for love, and everyone struggles for love.

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

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.

I know that is absolutely true for people when they are young - you don't want to be alive if the things that you love in your life aren't there.

Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does she want me to stay here with her?" "She wants something to love, I think," said the cat. "Something that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well. It's hard to tell with creatures like that.

Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it's also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.

It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.

It was not a life, if lived without love.

He loved her. He wanted her. He needed her. And he needed her now.

The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.

All around the world, people want to be loved.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love.

You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.

We want, or wanted, to believe that without love we would disappear, that love, somehow, would save us that, yeah, if we have love, give love and know love, we are truly alive and if there is no love, there would be no life. The Terror is, we know now, that even without love, life goes on... we just go on there is no mercy killing.