Best Isak Dinesen Sayings
- You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions. Adventure
- All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story. All
- We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power. Funny
- Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best. All
- our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home. Blessed
- I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. Africa
- It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for… All
- If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields… Africa
- I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make… Character
- Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I… All
- through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and… Botched
- One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel. Doe
- I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that… Condition
- Write a little every day, without hope, without despair. Day
- A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who… Bad
- When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves… Afterwards
- The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over… Along
- Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?" Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. "No, I shall… All
- To be a person is to have a story to tell. Person
- I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you... Deep
- You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that… Anyone
- There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought that… Africa
- The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept. Entire
- I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. Bless
- Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning… Air