“Know ye not that there is here in this world a secret confraternity, which one might call the Company of Melancholiacs? That people there are who by natural constitution have been given a different nature and disposition than the others;… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share
Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“...he looked so strange and absentminded; quite obviously he had just been reading a book, one could tell that from the expression in his… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Know ye not that there is here in this world a secret confraternity, which one might call the Company of Melancholiacs? That people there are who by natural constitution have been given a different nature and disposition than the others; that have a larger heart and a swifter blood, that wish and demand more, have stronger desires and a yearning… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share
He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life instead of living it. How innocuous it all was, and empty, empty, empty! This chasing after yourself, craftily observing your own tracks--in a circle, of course. This sham diving into the stream of life while… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share
“And it all came to pass, all that she had hoped, but it did not fill her with rapture nor carry her away with… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“For he has faith enough, he feels, if he were really to delve into himself, faith enough to move mountains, but he cannot manage… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Of what are you thinking now?" she asked. "I am thinking of myself." "That's just what I am doing." "Are you also thinking of… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same:… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
