28 Quotes by Selma Lagerlöf

Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one’s fellow man to the glory of God.

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.

More die in flight than in battle.

It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.

For what is man’s soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could not go to him and tell him that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I knew that no one would have been happier than he to hear this.

I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.

Anyone who has ever sat in a train as it rushes through a dark night will know that sometimes there are long minutes when the coaches slide smoothly along without so much as a shudder.