Bearable Quote by Isak Dinesen

The divine art is the story.

— Isak Dinesen

Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness,…

— Isak Dinesen

A great artist is never poor.

— Isak Dinesen

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

— Isak Dinesen

One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.

— Isak Dinesen

When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we…

— Isak Dinesen

Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared…

— Isak Dinesen

“It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose Native land you take. It is their past as well,…

— Isak Dinesen

There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought…

— Isak Dinesen

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the…

— Isak Dinesen

People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a…

— Isak Dinesen

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

— Isak Dinesen