Quotes by Isak Dinesen

• The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
• A great artist is never poor.
• When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
• Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
• I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
• All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
• Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
• Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
• God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
• The cure for anything is salt water: tears, sweat, or the sea.