179 Quotes by Isak Dinesen

There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows.

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned.

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?”

One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best...

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused? – Experience, old people’s experience.

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings.

I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them...

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker’s mind.