240 Quotes by Knut Hamsun

Small things and great occur; a tooth falls from the mouth, a man out of the ranks, a sparrow to the ground.

By now both mother and daughter were in a good humor and able to joke, mother sat up in bed and chuckled from time to time; they were temperamentally akin and shared the blessed ability to suppress dark memories.

Og jeg var så kjær i ham, å hele verden blev borte når han kom. Jeg husker en mand som kunde komme gående! Han hadde fuldskjæg, han var som et dyr, han stanset iblandt og holdt den ene fot oppe og lyttet, så gik han videre. Han brukte også skindklær.

   "But has anything happened to you? Your face is so strangely distorted."   "No, I'm smiling," he said. "This is going to be my way of smiling. I want this grimace to be my hallmark.

Gud i himlen, kjærligheten er et flygtig stof!

Oliver was far from fretting: he was in good bodily health, the bad weather allowed him to remain in idleness, his industry had deserted him.

From the day in May when my ill-luck began I could so clearly notice my gradually increasing debility; I had become, as it were, too languid to control or lead myself whither I would go. A swarm of tiny noxious animals had bored a way into my inner man and hollowed me out.

Høibro kunde ikke forstå at denne tørre fremskridtskvinde med kort hår blandet sig i slike spørsmål som ægteskapet, hun stod i hans forestilling som en art hanmenneske i skjørter, et væsen av det tredje kjøn; stak man hul på hende vilde hun blø sand.

Kvinden var menneske, den ene halvdel av menneskeheten, men mandfolk det var nu kvinden ikke!