Isak Dinesen Quotes

Denmark, Writer
April 17, 1885 – September, 7, 1962.

Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke was a Danish author who wrote works in Danish and English. She is best known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries, and Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries. She also published works using the aliases Osceola and Pierre Andrézel.

And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.

Isak Dinesen
- Faith
- Come
- Mountains
What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused? - Experience, old people's experience.

Isak Dinesen

I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

Isak Dinesen
- Story
- Sorrows
- Borne
You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

Isak Dinesen
- Living
- Alive
- Lions
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

Isak Dinesen
- Change
- Ruin
- Worrying
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.

Isak Dinesen
- Love
- Woman
- Broomstick
One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.

Isak Dinesen
- World
- Love
- Best
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.

Isak Dinesen
- Night
- Dream
- Ecstasy

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.

Isak Dinesen
- Lessons
- Accepted
- WIld
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

Isak Dinesen
- Happy
- Poet
- Mission
When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

Isak Dinesen
- Music
- Same
- Africa