Best Isak Dinesen Quotations
- It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more… Bad
- No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in… Accepted
- There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself. Cooked
- I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with… Begun
- Here I am, where I am supposed to be. Funny
- It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk… Across
- But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of. All
- Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed,… Been
- All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. All
- Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much… Cherish
- Dont count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count. Amazing Life
- Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road. Cleverness