Isak Dinesen Quotes

A collection of quotes by Isak Dinesen.

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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We dr

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows

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 have been the biggest.

The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, teats, or the

The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, teats, or the sea.

Do you know a cure for me? Why yes, he said, I know a cure f

Do you know a cure for me? Why yes, he said, I know a cure for everything. Salt water.Salt water? I asked him. Yes, he said, in one form or another, sweat, tears or the salt sea.

Medicine

God made the world round so we would never be able to see to

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

Future

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than bef

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever...

Difficulty

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

Women

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We dr

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Age

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

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

Storytelling

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the s

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.

Medicine

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Evil

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

Work