All Knut Hamsun Quotes
- Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners.… Air
- There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and… Alone
- But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no… Accepting
- I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … . Despite my alienation… Able
- Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit… Acknowledge
- In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of… Carefree
- Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and,… All
- Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that… All
- I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things. Inspirational
- When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate. Befalls
- No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one… Assembly
- What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the earth was and… Ahead
- Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their… Admire
- Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and… Admirer
- No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man… Activity
- You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me… Art
- In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. Age
- I have gone to the forest. Forest
- I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. Especially
- No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. Becoming
- A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal.… All
- I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be… Absence
- I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of… Best
- There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me... Disposed
- Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity. Balanced