I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best. — 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… — 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
through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man;… — 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… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world… — 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
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
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the… — 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
