Isak Dinesen

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.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

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

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

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

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

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.

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.

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.

You know you are truly alive when you're living among lions.

Real art must always involve some witchcraft.

Coffee according to the women of Denmark is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

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

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb draperies of morning mist her mirage.

Our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

A great artist is never poor.

Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means.

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

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.