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List of Isak Dinesen Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 136 inspiring quotes by Isak Dinesen.

About Isak Dinesen

  • Born: April 17, 1885
  • Died: September 7, 1962
  • Occupation: Author
    • In the ngong forest i have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the giant forest hog, a rare person to meet.
    Rare Person Growth Hot
    And i had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in africa.
    Night Ideas Used
    For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.
    Suicide Dream People
    Through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth
    Dream Shoes World
    It is a good thing to be a great sinner. or should human beings allow christ to have died on the cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings
    Lying Sake Christ
    While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.
    Failure Ideas Bears
    It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!
    Silly Mean Littles
    I do not see eye to eye with the camera.
    Eye Cameras
    There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. when the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was a radiant sight, like a cloud of chalk, in the mist of the drizzling rain.
    Rain Coffee Clouds
    There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. it is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.
    Night Messages Sound
    It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. . . every time i have gone up in an aeroplane and looked down have realized i was free of the ground, i have had the consciousness of a new discovery. "i see:" i have thought, "this was the idea. and now i understand everything."
    Discovery Ideas Joy
    Within our whole universe the story only has the authority to answer that cry of heart of its characters, that one cry of heart of each of them: "who am i?"
    Heart Character Stories
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