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
grief heart garden
Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love which she had lost and still secretly mourned; from anguished joy over the pale, luminous love which drew her to the farthest boundaries of life on this earth. Through the great darkness that would come, she saw the gleam of another, gentler sun, and she sensed the fragrance of the herbs in the garden at world's end.
regret
No doing without some ruing.
men all-things
All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.
today dogma should
One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.
lying heart son
Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth.
education school class
I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.
book two office
I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.
sweet believe dark
In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where living water welled up, blessedly cold and sweet and pure, from the earth's dark bosom, I felt that after all it must be wrong not to believe in anything.
christmas stars ocean
And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.
bottles morality empty
The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.
path right-road my-own
All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.
thinking good-things dare
It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.
life children and-love
No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.
school hated schools-and-education
I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom