19 Quotes by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Ingrid søkte å friske henne ved å minne om hvor mangen glede de tre rett hadde hatt sammen; men da gikk det her som så ofte at hver liten erindring fra de dager hvorover solskinnet leker, nu i sorgen smelter opp til tårer.

{Bjørnson on the great Colonel Robert Ingersoll, whom he translated into Norwegian}I am very sorry that, when I was in America, I did not have the opportunity to grasp the hand of a man who, with the sword, fought to free from bodily slavery three millions of people, and who has shown the way to intellectual freedom to many millions more. I envy the land that brings forth such glorious fruit as Ingersoll.

Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.

Honest investigation can result only in growth.

Jeg er nu nætop højtidelig udstødt af Grundtvigs lejr – fordi jeg ikke kan, ikke vil have ”djævelen” med udi samme lejr.

...den store folkesygdom, kilden til al vor fortræd, er den sort kristendom, som af træle prækes for træle, og hvori hælvedes-straffen og læren om guds-billedet, ifølge hvilken alt fribåret (som menneske-båret) er synd, bare synd, – holder folket ræd, hælvedes-ræd, præste-ræd.

But life does not consist of words.Life consists of reality.

I want to go away, oh so far, far away.

Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.