Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Isak Dinesen
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Isak Dinesen
Ocean
Cure
Tears
Sweat
Healthy
Encouragement
Water
Cures
Maritime
Anything
Beach
Nautical
Boat
Sweating
Wave
Sailing
Sea
Salt
More quotes by Isak Dinesen
I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.
Isak Dinesen
Be not afraid of absurdity do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.
Isak Dinesen
During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.
Isak Dinesen
If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.
Isak Dinesen
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
Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.
Isak Dinesen
And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.
Isak Dinesen
There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.
Isak Dinesen
For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.
Isak Dinesen
While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.
Isak Dinesen
Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
Isak Dinesen
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
Isak Dinesen
No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.
Isak Dinesen
It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.
Isak Dinesen
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
Isak Dinesen
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?
Isak Dinesen
You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.
Isak Dinesen
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.
Isak Dinesen
I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Isak Dinesen
Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
Isak Dinesen