240 Quotes by Knut Hamsun

Men da tokayeren stod næsten urørt i glassene fik fru Julie champagne og frukt ind, druer, epler, fikener. Nei du store verden! Tænkte vel alle, og verten kunde endelig merke en snev av himelfaldenhet.

Du kan bli syk og ussel i skogen, og jeg tror ikke du har været riktig frisk i det senere. -Isak snøste igjen. -Syk? Slitt og træt, ja vel; men syk? Inger måtte ikke gjøre ham latterlig, han var og blev frisk, han spiste, sov og arbeidet, det hvilte jo likefrem en uhelbredelighet over hans fryktelige sundhet.

Du er ogsaa Kunstnersjæl, Skønaand, en Smagens Mand, et Artistgemyt,en Bohême, en Satan. Men du er ogsaa Poet. Fan ved hva du er altsammen, du er meget spredt.

It is years since I knew such peace, perhaps twenty or thirty years; or perhaps it was in a previous life. Whenever it was, I must surely have tasted before now this peace that I feel as I walk around in ecstasies, humming to myself, caring for every stone and every straw, and sensing that they care for me once more. We are friends.

Mit blods røst sier mig at den er størst som har tilført tilværelsen mest grunnværdi, mest positiv profit. Den store terrorist er størst, dimensionen, den uhørte donkraft som veier kloder op.

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

Was it really right to look the way he did? His prominent nose was altogether too immodest for his humble position in life; and he let his hair grow right through the winter so that he appeared more and more artistic. His fiancée reacted by saying that he looked like a painter who had ended up as a photographer.

You are right; I am not good at moving in society. Be merciful. You do not understand me; I live in the woods by choice--that is my happiness. Here, where I am all alone, it can hurt no one that I am as I am; but when I go among others, I have to use all my will power to be as I should.

Jeg kommer ned i min kuffert efter kognak og hælder i et ølglas, jeg speider omkring mig, og da jeg finder mig alene rænder jeg i fåret flere gode slurker. Jeg stræver længe med dette da dyret er gjenstridig, men da jeg tilslut får fat i dets tunge svælger det godt. Tungen var blå.