Quote

I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again it is there deep within you.

Isak Dinesen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Isak Dinesen
Flash
Deep
Within
Happiness
Never
Think
Thinking

More quotes by Isak Dinesen

Image
It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.
Isak Dinesen
Image
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.
Isak Dinesen
Image
I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.
Isak Dinesen
Image
I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.
Isak Dinesen
Image
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
Image
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.
Isak Dinesen
Image
There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows
Isak Dinesen
Image
Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance.
Isak Dinesen
Image
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.
Isak Dinesen
Image
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.
Isak Dinesen
Image
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
Image
Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
Isak Dinesen
Image
In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion for theological discussion which I had inherited from my father himself-all of which my father thought I had better rid myself of before I married.
Isak Dinesen
Image
Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.
Isak Dinesen
Image
Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
Isak Dinesen
Image
It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
Isak Dinesen
Image
I arrived at the conviction that we should, more easily and more thoroughly than we now do or ever have done, understand the nature and the laws of the Cosmos if we would from the beginning recognize its originator and upholder as being of the female sex.
Isak Dinesen
Image
And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.
Isak Dinesen
Image
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Isak Dinesen
Image
If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.
Isak Dinesen