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Top 10 Jens Peter Jacobsen Quotes (2025 Update)

Jens Peter Jacobsen Quote: “Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech – what happens is the same: that which is now seen and now grasped is not, in its clearness, the shadowy thing that was.”

1. “Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech – what happens is the same: that which is now seen and now grasped is not, in its clearness, the shadowy thing that was.”

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

Jens Peter Jacobsen Quote: “Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to any one who swallows it, in the same manner love is a kind of poison and produces a baneful raging distemper in those who are infected by it.”

2. “Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to any one who swallows it, in the same manner love is a kind of poison and produces a baneful raging distemper in those who are infected by it.”

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

Jens Peter Jacobsen Quote: “She dreamed a thousand dreams of those sunlit regions and was consumed with longing for this other and richer self, forgetting – what is so easily forgotten – that even the fairest dreams and the deepest longings do not add an inch to the stature of the human soul.”

3. “She dreamed a thousand dreams of those sunlit regions and was consumed with longing for this other and richer self, forgetting – what is so easily forgotten – that even the fairest dreams and the deepest longings do not add an inch to the stature of the human soul.”

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

Jens Peter Jacobsen Quote: “Of all the emotional relationships in life, is there any more delicate, more noble, and more intense than a boy’s deep and yet so totally bashful love for another boy? The kind of love that never speaks, never dares give way to a caress, a glance, or a word, the kind of vigilant love that bitterly grieves over every shortcoming or imperfection in the one who is loved, a love which is longing and admiration and negation of self, and which is pride and humility and calmly breathing happiness.”

4. “Of all the emotional relationships in life, is there any more delicate, more noble, and more intense than a boy’s deep and yet so totally bashful love for another boy? The kind of love that never speaks, never dares give way to a caress, a glance, or a word, the kind of vigilant love that bitterly grieves over every shortcoming or imperfection in the one who is loved, a love which is longing and admiration and negation of self, and which is pride and humility and calmly breathing happiness.”

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

Jens Peter Jacobsen Quote: “He yearned for a thousand tremulous dreams, for cool and delicate images, transparent tints, fleeting scents, and exquisite music from streams of highly strung, tensely drawn silvery strings – and then silence, the innermost heart of silence, where the waves of air never bore a single stray tone, but where all was rest unto death, steeped in the calm glow of red colors and the languid warmth of fiery fragrance.”

5. “He yearned for a thousand tremulous dreams, for cool and delicate images, transparent tints, fleeting scents, and exquisite music from streams of highly strung, tensely drawn silvery strings – and then silence, the innermost heart of silence, where the waves of air never bore a single stray tone, but where all was rest unto death, steeped in the calm glow of red colors and the languid warmth of fiery fragrance.”

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

Jens Peter Jacobsen Quote: “The time that passes with goodness will not return with evil; and nothing experienced in life later on can make one day wither or erase one hour of the life that has been lived.”

6. “The time that passes with goodness will not return with evil; and nothing experienced in life later on can make one day wither or erase one hour of the life that has been lived.”

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

Jens Peter Jacobsen Quote: “He did not think of love as an eternally vigilant, blazing flame, which with its powerful, flickering glow shown into all the peaceful folds of life and in some fantastic way made everything seem bigger and stronger than it was. For him, love was more like the calm, smoldering ember that gives off an even heat from its soft bed of ashes and in the muted twilight tenderly forgets what is distant and makes what is near seem twice as close and twice as intimate.”

7. “He did not think of love as an eternally vigilant, blazing flame, which with its powerful, flickering glow shown into all the peaceful folds of life and in some fantastic way made everything seem bigger and stronger than it was. For him, love was more like the calm, smoldering ember that gives off an even heat from its soft bed of ashes and in the muted twilight tenderly forgets what is distant and makes what is near seem twice as close and twice as intimate.”

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

Jens Peter Jacobsen Quote: “What can it be, do you think? A hidden nerve that’s given way? Or something we have failed in or sinned against in ourselves, perhaps – who knows? A soul is such a fragile thing, and no one knows how far the soul extends in a human being. We ought to be good to ourselves –.”

8. “What can it be, do you think? A hidden nerve that’s given way? Or something we have failed in or sinned against in ourselves, perhaps – who knows? A soul is such a fragile thing, and no one knows how far the soul extends in a human being. We ought to be good to ourselves –.”

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

Jens Peter Jacobsen Quote: “I don’t know how it is, but I am so tired of commonplace happiness and commonplace goals.”

9. “I don’t know how it is, but I am so tired of commonplace happiness and commonplace goals.”

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Jens Peter Jacobsen Quote: “So Niels grows up, and all the influences of his childhood work on the plastic clay. Everything helps to shape it; everything is significant, the real and the dreamed, what is known and what is foreshadowed – all add their touch, lightly but surely, to that tracery of lines which is destined to be first hollowed out and deepened and afterwards flattened out and smoothed away.”

10. “So Niels grows up, and all the influences of his childhood work on the plastic clay. Everything helps to shape it; everything is significant, the real and the dreamed, what is known and what is foreshadowed – all add their touch, lightly but surely, to that tracery of lines which is destined to be first hollowed out and deepened and afterwards flattened out and smoothed away.”

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

Jens Peter Jacobsen Quote: “There was no style in nature.”

11. “There was no style in nature.”

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Jens Peter Jacobsen Quote: “I don’t understand you. I can’t treat myself like a hurdy-gurdy from which I can take out an unpopular piece and put in a tune that everybody is whistling.”

12. “I don’t understand you. I can’t treat myself like a hurdy-gurdy from which I can take out an unpopular piece and put in a tune that everybody is whistling.”

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

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