Quote

I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

Isak Dinesen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Isak Dinesen
Forest
Pacing
Native
Travelling
Forests
Herd
Along
Appointments
Seen
Herds
Ends
Dense
World
Elephant
Elephants
Appointment

More quotes by Isak Dinesen

Image
The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.
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
Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
Isak Dinesen
Image
Then Martine said: So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette? Poor? said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great artist. A great artist, Mesdames, is never poor.We have something, Mesdames, of which other people know nothing.
Isak Dinesen
Image
It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a tremendous outcry from inside.
Isak Dinesen
Image
death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.
Isak Dinesen
Image
Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told us.
Isak Dinesen
Image
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
Isak Dinesen
Image
Do you know a cure for me? Why yes, he said, I know a cure for everything. Salt water. Salt water? I asked him. Yes, he said, in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.
Isak Dinesen
Image
our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
Isak Dinesen
Image
I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.
Isak Dinesen
Image
Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
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
I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
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
It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
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
One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.
Isak Dinesen
Image
It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!
Isak Dinesen
Image
It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.
Isak Dinesen