Best Isak Dinesen Quotes
- There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne… Alive
- Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other. Caskets
- It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to… Caricature
- People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid… Artist
- What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into… Accurately
- Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth.… Any
- The divine art is the story. Art
- You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. Change
- There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows All
- Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story. Eternally
- Within our whole universe the story only has the authority to answer that cry of heart of its characters, that one cry of heart of… Answer
- In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect. Defect
- While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. Bear
- It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him. Admirer
- Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our… All
- What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience. Bought
- We invent the past and remember the future. Future
- Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things… Amazing Life
- The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. Beach
- When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little,… Almost Impossible
- I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them. Become Real
- God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. Able
- A great artist is never poor. Artist
- Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in… Age
- Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes,"… Asked