Quotes of Isak Dinesen - somelinesforyou

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

- Isak Dinesen

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

- 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. ”

- Isak Dinesen

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

- Isak Dinesen

“ 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. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the backcurtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words ‘straight’, ‘square’, and ‘flat’ the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum. ”

- 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. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the backcurtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words ‘straight’, ‘square’, and ‘flat’ the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ I have been with you every day of my life. You know, do you not, that is has been so? And, I shall be with you every day that is left to me. Every evening I shall sit down, if not in flesh, which means nothing, in spirit, which is all, to dine with you, just like tonight. For tonight I have learned that in this world anything is possible. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but reveal to them their own. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but reveal to them their own. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. ”

- Isak Dinesen

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

- Isak Dinesen

“ Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ 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. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ 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. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ I don't think that… one gets a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there within you, and it will come as certainly as death. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ I don't think that… one gets a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there within you, and it will come as certainly as death. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. ”

- Isak Dinesen

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

- Isak Dinesen

“ The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, teats, or the sea. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, teats, or the sea. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. ”

- Isak Dinesen
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