28 Quotes by Selma Lagerlöf

It is only under the plane trees of Granada that la cachucha is danced by eternally young gypsies. Eternally young, like the roses are, because every spring there are new ones.

Old butterflies should have the sense to die while the summer sun is shining,

He needed so much to weep. All the distrust of life which misfortunes had brought to the little Värmland boy needed tears to wash it away. Distrust that love and joy, beauty and strength blossomed on the earth, distrust in himself, all must go, all did go, for it was Easter; the dead lived and the Spirit of Fasting would never again come into power.

Shouldn't we fear life? Who steers a safe boat? Around us sorrow swells like a heaving ocean; we can see how the hungry waves lick the ship's sides, how they climb to board her. No safe anchorage, no solid ground, no steady ship, as far as the eye can see; only an unknown sky over an ocean full of trouble!

Pois quem não sente bater o coração, nem de tristeza nem de alegria, não pode ser considerado um verdadeiro ser humano.

There isn’t much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.

What is so certain of victory as patience?