Top 120 Isak Dinesen Quotes (2024 Update)
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Isak Dinesen Quote: “People work much in order to secure the future; I gave my mind much work and trouble, trying to secure the past.”

101. “People work much in order to secure the future; I gave my mind much work and trouble, trying to secure the past.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “I have been with you every day of my life. You know, do you not, that is has been so? And, I shall be with you every day that is left to me. Every evening I shall sit down, if not in flesh, which means nothing, in spirit, which is all, to dine with you, just like tonight. For tonight I have learned that in this world anything is possible.”

102. “I have been with you every day of my life. You know, do you not, that is has been so? And, I shall be with you every day that is left to me. Every evening I shall sit down, if not in flesh, which means nothing, in spirit, which is all, to dine with you, just like tonight. For tonight I have learned that in this world anything is possible.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course through rocks and plains to run into an ocean which is not to be found. For God does not create a longing or a hope without having a fulfilling reality ready for them. But our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.”

103. “Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course through rocks and plains to run into an ocean which is not to be found. For God does not create a longing or a hope without having a fulfilling reality ready for them. But our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “If I know a song of Africa,-I thought-, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the ploughs in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee-pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Would the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name was, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or would the eagles of Ngong look out for me?”

104. “If I know a song of Africa,-I thought-, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the ploughs in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee-pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Would the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name was, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or would the eagles of Ngong look out for me?”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “The plan which I had formed in the beginning, to give in in all minor matters, so as to keep what was of vital importance to me, had turned out to be a failure. I had consented to give away my possessions one by one, as a kind of ransom for my own life, but by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all, for fate to get rid of.”

105. “The plan which I had formed in the beginning, to give in in all minor matters, so as to keep what was of vital importance to me, had turned out to be a failure. I had consented to give away my possessions one by one, as a kind of ransom for my own life, but by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all, for fate to get rid of.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “Who then,” she continues, “tells a finer tale than any of us? Silence does. And where does one read a deeper tale than upon the most perfectly printed page of the most precious book? Upon the blank page. When a royal and gallant pen, in the moment of its highest inspiration, has written down its tale with the rarest ink of all – where, then, may one read a still deeper, sweeter, merrier and more cruel tale than that? Upon the blank page.”

106. “Who then,” she continues, “tells a finer tale than any of us? Silence does. And where does one read a deeper tale than upon the most perfectly printed page of the most precious book? Upon the blank page. When a royal and gallant pen, in the moment of its highest inspiration, has written down its tale with the rarest ink of all – where, then, may one read a still deeper, sweeter, merrier and more cruel tale than that? Upon the blank page.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “Mercy and truth, my friends, have met together,′ said the General. ‘Righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another.”

107. “Mercy and truth, my friends, have met together,′ said the General. ‘Righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.”

108. “All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “A man’s center of gravity, the substance of his being, consists in what he has executed and performed in his life; the woman’s, in what she is.”

109. “A man’s center of gravity, the substance of his being, consists in what he has executed and performed in his life; the woman’s, in what she is.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “After being told that the Professor “found it possible to believe for a moment in the existence of God,” Isak thought, “Has it been possible to God, at Mount Elgon, to believe for a moment in the existence of Professor Landgreen?”

110. “After being told that the Professor “found it possible to believe for a moment in the existence of God,” Isak thought, “Has it been possible to God, at Mount Elgon, to believe for a moment in the existence of Professor Landgreen?”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “The tight place, the dark pit in which I am now lying, of what bird is it the talon? When the design of my life is completed, shall I, shall other people see a stork?”

111. “The tight place, the dark pit in which I am now lying, of what bird is it the talon? When the design of my life is completed, shall I, shall other people see a stork?”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequalled nobility.”

112. “Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequalled nobility.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “I have read or been told that in a book of etiquette of the seventeenth century the very first rule forbids you to tell your dreams to other people, since they cannot possibly be of interest to them.”

113. “I have read or been told that in a book of etiquette of the seventeenth century the very first rule forbids you to tell your dreams to other people, since they cannot possibly be of interest to them.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “There are many highly intelligent people who have no answer at all in them. A conversation or a correspondence with such persons is nothing but a double monologue – you may stroke them or strike them, you will get no more echo from them than from a block of wood. And how, then, can you yourself go on speaking?”

114. “There are many highly intelligent people who have no answer at all in them. A conversation or a correspondence with such persons is nothing but a double monologue – you may stroke them or strike them, you will get no more echo from them than from a block of wood. And how, then, can you yourself go on speaking?”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “Very old families will sometimes feel upon them the shadow of annihilation.”

115. “Very old families will sometimes feel upon them the shadow of annihilation.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “And as he passed the boy gave the elder man a short glance and a smile, the haughty and arrogant smile which youth gives to ages.”

116. “And as he passed the boy gave the elder man a short glance and a smile, the haughty and arrogant smile which youth gives to ages.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives.”

117. “It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “There is no joy for a woman in putting a man in his place; it is no humiliation for a man to kneel before a woman. But it is humiliating for the women of a society not to be able to respect their men; it is humiliating for the men of a society not to be able to venerate their women.”

118. “There is no joy for a woman in putting a man in his place; it is no humiliation for a man to kneel before a woman. But it is humiliating for the women of a society not to be able to respect their men; it is humiliating for the men of a society not to be able to venerate their women.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted. But why should not their own thoughts be good enough for other people to tell them?”

119. “It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted. But why should not their own thoughts be good enough for other people to tell them?”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “Camping-places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember the curve of your waggon track in the grass of the plain, like the features of a friend.”

120. “Camping-places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember the curve of your waggon track in the grass of the plain, like the features of a friend.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “The tales that white people tell you of their Native servants are conceived in the same spirit. If they had been told that they played no more important part in the lives of the Natives than the Natives played in their own lives, they would have been highly indignant and ill at ease.”

121. “The tales that white people tell you of their Native servants are conceived in the same spirit. If they had been told that they played no more important part in the lives of the Natives than the Natives played in their own lives, they would have been highly indignant and ill at ease.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “The true aristocracy and the true proletariat of the world are both in understanding with tragedy. To them it is the fundamental principle of God, and the key, – the minor key, – to existence. They differ in this way from the bourgeoisie of all classes, who deny tragedy, who will not tolerate it, and to whom the word of tragedy means in itself unpleasantness.”

122. “The true aristocracy and the true proletariat of the world are both in understanding with tragedy. To them it is the fundamental principle of God, and the key, – the minor key, – to existence. They differ in this way from the bourgeoisie of all classes, who deny tragedy, who will not tolerate it, and to whom the word of tragedy means in itself unpleasantness.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “Is it not a sweet thing to think that, if only you have patience, all that has ever been, will come back to you?”

123. “Is it not a sweet thing to think that, if only you have patience, all that has ever been, will come back to you?”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “Natives dislike speed, as we dislike noise, it is to them, at the best, hard to bear. They are also on friendly terms with time, and the plan of beguiling or killing it does not come into their heads. In fact the more time you can give them, the happier they are, and if you commission a Kikuyu to hold your horse while you make a visit, you can see by his face that he hopes you will be a long, long time about it. He does not try to pass the time then, but sits down and lives.”

124. “Natives dislike speed, as we dislike noise, it is to them, at the best, hard to bear. They are also on friendly terms with time, and the plan of beguiling or killing it does not come into their heads. In fact the more time you can give them, the happier they are, and if you commission a Kikuyu to hold your horse while you make a visit, you can see by his face that he hopes you will be a long, long time about it. He does not try to pass the time then, but sits down and lives.”

— Isak Dinesen

Isak Dinesen Quote: “Therefore does the world love the Swedes, because in the midst of their woes they can draw it all to their bosom and be so galant that they shine a long way away.”

125. “Therefore does the world love the Swedes, because in the midst of their woes they can draw it all to their bosom and be so galant that they shine a long way away.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “If a man can devote himself undisturbed to the work which is on his mind, he can, as far I have observed, completely ignore his surroundings – they disappear for him; he can sit in filth and disorder, draught and cold, and be completely happy. For most women it is insufferable to sit in a room if the color scheme displeases them.”

126. “If a man can devote himself undisturbed to the work which is on his mind, he can, as far I have observed, completely ignore his surroundings – they disappear for him; he can sit in filth and disorder, draught and cold, and be completely happy. For most women it is insufferable to sit in a room if the color scheme displeases them.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “From my journeys in southern Europe I have gained the impression that in our time the Virgin Mary is the only heavenly creature who is really beloved by millions. But I believe these millions would be uncomprehending and perhaps even offended if I were to tell them that the Virgin Mary had made a significant discovery, solved difficult mathematical problems, or masterfully organized and administered an association of housewives in Nazareth.”

127. “From my journeys in southern Europe I have gained the impression that in our time the Virgin Mary is the only heavenly creature who is really beloved by millions. But I believe these millions would be uncomprehending and perhaps even offended if I were to tell them that the Virgin Mary had made a significant discovery, solved difficult mathematical problems, or masterfully organized and administered an association of housewives in Nazareth.”

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Isak Dinesen Quote: “But the cultivation of race gets nowhere, for even its triumphal progress becomes a vicious circle. It cannot give and cannot receive.”

128. “But the cultivation of race gets nowhere, for even its triumphal progress becomes a vicious circle. It cannot give and cannot receive.”

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