“All the sorrows of life are bearable if only we can convert them into a story.” — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted"… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“Much which is unworthy in human life might be avoided if people would only accustom themselves to talking in verse” — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“The tight place, the dark pit in which I am now lying, of what bird is it the talon? When the design… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild and useless tribe, perhaps I am even one of the last members of it, who… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?" Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself.… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose Native land you take. It is their past as well,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
