Isak Dinesen
Isak Dinesen
Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke, née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author, also known by the pen name Isak Dinesen, who wrote works in Danish, French and English. She also at times used the pen names Tania Blixen, Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel...
suffering stories bearable
All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story.
encouraging perseverance time
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.
patterns fantasy infinite
To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.
grieving people house
The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.
reality order fiction
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.
heart long trying
I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with him. To love him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of his own heart.
past worry ruins
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
beach encouragement ocean
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
world able live-in-the-present
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
inspirational life beautiful
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 worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
along herd pacing
A herd of elephant... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world