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Top 10 Axel Munthe Quotes (2025 Update)

Axel Munthe Quote: “What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.”

1. “What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.”

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Axel Munthe Quote: “My home shall be open for the sun and the wind and the voices of the sea – like a Greek temple – and light, light, light everywhere!”

2. “My home shall be open for the sun and the wind and the voices of the sea – like a Greek temple – and light, light, light everywhere!”

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Axel Munthe Quote: “The soul needs more space than the body.”

3. “The soul needs more space than the body.”

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Axel Munthe Quote: “A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected.”

4. “A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected.”

— Axel Munthe

Axel Munthe Quote: “A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.”

5. “A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.”

— Axel Munthe

Axel Munthe Quote: “The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.”

6. “The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.”

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Axel Munthe Quote: “Happiness we can only find in ourselves, it is a waste of time to seek for it from others, few have any to spare. Sorrow we have to bear alone as best we can, it is not fair to try to shift it on others, be they men or women. We have to fight our own battles and strike as hard as we can, born fighters as we are.”

7. “Happiness we can only find in ourselves, it is a waste of time to seek for it from others, few have any to spare. Sorrow we have to bear alone as best we can, it is not fair to try to shift it on others, be they men or women. We have to fight our own battles and strike as hard as we can, born fighters as we are.”

— Axel Munthe

Axel Munthe Quote: “Christ – an anarchist who succeeded.”

8. “Christ – an anarchist who succeeded.”

— Axel Munthe

Axel Munthe Quote: “We know that we are going to die, in fact it is the only thing we know of what is in store for us. All the rest is mere guesswork, and most of the time we guess wrong. Like children in the trackless forest we grope our way through our lives in blissful ignorance of what is going to happen to us from one day to another, what hardships we may have to face, what more or less thrilling adventures we may encounter before the great adventure, the most thrilling of all, the Adventure of Death.”

9. “We know that we are going to die, in fact it is the only thing we know of what is in store for us. All the rest is mere guesswork, and most of the time we guess wrong. Like children in the trackless forest we grope our way through our lives in blissful ignorance of what is going to happen to us from one day to another, what hardships we may have to face, what more or less thrilling adventures we may encounter before the great adventure, the most thrilling of all, the Adventure of Death.”

— Axel Munthe

Axel Munthe Quote: “To my amazement, I have heard that there are people who have never seen a gnome. I can’t help pitying these people. I am certain there must be something wrong with their eyesight.”

10. “To my amazement, I have heard that there are people who have never seen a gnome. I can’t help pitying these people. I am certain there must be something wrong with their eyesight.”

— Axel Munthe

Axel Munthe Quote: “A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.”

11. “A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.”

— Axel Munthe

Axel Munthe Quote: “To become a good dog-doctor it is necessary to love dogs, but it is also necessary to understand them – the same as with us, with the difference that it is easier to understand a dog than a man and easier to love him.”

12. “To become a good dog-doctor it is necessary to love dogs, but it is also necessary to understand them – the same as with us, with the difference that it is easier to understand a dog than a man and easier to love him.”

— Axel Munthe

Axel Munthe Quote: “Why didn’t we build more hospitals and fewer churches, you could pray to God everywhere but you could not operate in a gutter!”

13. “Why didn’t we build more hospitals and fewer churches, you could pray to God everywhere but you could not operate in a gutter!”

— Axel Munthe

Axel Munthe Quote: “Death, the giver of Life, the slayer of Life, the beginning and the end.”

14. “Death, the giver of Life, the slayer of Life, the beginning and the end.”

— Axel Munthe

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