Isak Dinesen Quotes

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

  Isak Dinesen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Silence

• 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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Time, Great, Hope

• 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.

  Isak Dinesen

  Topics in Age, Life, Love

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

  Isak Dinesen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Real, Become

• 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

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Evil, Abundance

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

  Isak Dinesen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World

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

  Isak Dinesen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sorrow

• A great artist is never poor.

  Isak Dinesen

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Artist

• The cure for anything is saltwater sweat, tears or the sea.

  Isak Dinesen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tear, Sea, Saltwater, Sweat

• I think these 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 around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

  Isak Dinesen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worry

• Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 – to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.

  Isak Dinesen

  Topics in Age, Funny

Isak Dinesen (11)

Birth:	17th April, 1885
Death:	7th September, 1962
Nationality:	Danish
Profession:	Author, Writer

About

Karen von Blixen-Finecke, née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen. She also wrote under the pen names Tania Blixen, Osceola and Pierre Andrézel. Blixen wrote works in Danish, French and English.

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