28 Quotes by Selma Lagerlöf

There is so little that one can do for the dead!

There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it.

Women can do nothing that has permanence.

It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.

No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.

Strange, when you ask anyone’s advice you see yourself what is right.

There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.

Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.