I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say:… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you... — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up… — 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
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the… — 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
Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly… — 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
It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as… — 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
