305 Quotes by Tove Jansson

Everything's much too big here,' thought Moominmamma. 'Or perhaps I'm too small.

...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more and more about myself, and I found this to be a bewitching occupation. I stopped asking and longed instead to speak of my thoughts and feelings. Alas, there was no one besides myself who found me interesting.

He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was.

But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.

I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.

Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events - the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves.

Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.

... 'I've been doing everything for an awfully long time, and I've seen and lived as hard as I could, and it's been unbelievable, I tell you, unbelievable. But now I have the feeling everything's gliding away from me, and I don't remember, and I don't care, and yet now is right when I need it!'. [pp. 84-85]

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.