Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undsetwas a Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 May 1882
CountryNorway
committed played role school shaping
My school was co-educational and heavily committed to progressive educational ideas. It played an important role in shaping my character.
wine beer drunk
I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.
saws sin wrongdoing
I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.
thinking dare wells
tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it ...
soon-enough may done
God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.
school years resistance
I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.
ignorance lessons youth
Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson ...
fate men given
Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.
father europe
Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.
people sin realizing
But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.
prayer advice littles
The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.
fire lasts burn-out
All fires burn out at last.
father school good-education
I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.
flames lust temptation
the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.