Isak Dinesen Quotes
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And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.
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You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.
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You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
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What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused? - Experience, old people's experience.
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I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
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I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.
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No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.
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A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.
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One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.
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People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue.
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When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.