Selma Lagerlöf Quotes
- There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.
- It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.
- No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.
- Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when…
- He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.
- There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it.
- If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth…
- It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.
- Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.
- ... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth,…
- Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told of cruel giants…
- Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.