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Top 25 Karen Blixen Quotes (2025 Update)

Karen Blixen Quote: “The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the salt sea.”

1. “The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the salt sea.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.”

3. “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.”

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Karen Blixen Quote: “All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.”

4. “All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.”

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Karen Blixen 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 colour that I had 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? I.”

5. “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 colour that I had 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? I.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “It’s an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we’re tested at all, it’s for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.”

6. “It’s an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we’re tested at all, it’s for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “Msabu’s bleeding. She does not have this ox. This lion is hungry. He does not have this ox. This wagon is heavy. It doesn’t have this ox. God is happy, msabu. He plays with us.”

7. “Msabu’s bleeding. She does not have this ox. This lion is hungry. He does not have this ox. This wagon is heavy. It doesn’t have this ox. God is happy, msabu. He plays with us.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.”

8. “A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “Still, we often talked on the farm of the Safaris that we had been on. Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain, like the features of a friend.”

9. “Still, we often talked on the farm of the Safaris that we had been on. Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain, like the features of a friend.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “All sorrows can be born if you put them in a story or tell a story about them.”

10. “All sorrows can be born if you put them in a story or tell a story about them.”

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Karen Blixen Quote: “Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.”

11. “Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “To die for the one you loved was an effort too sweet for words.”

12. “To die for the one you loved was an effort too sweet for words.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “The Kikuyu, when left to themselves, do not bury their dead, but leave them above ground for the hyenas and vultures to deal with. The custom had always appealed to me, I thought that it would be pleasant thing to be laid out to the sun and the stars, and to be so promptly, neatly, and openly picked and cleansed; to be made one with Nature and become a common component of a landscape.”

13. “The Kikuyu, when left to themselves, do not bury their dead, but leave them above ground for the hyenas and vultures to deal with. The custom had always appealed to me, I thought that it would be pleasant thing to be laid out to the sun and the stars, and to be so promptly, neatly, and openly picked and cleansed; to be made one with Nature and become a common component of a landscape.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.”

14. “There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “The thing which in the waking world comes nearest to a dream is night in a big town, where nobody knows one, or the African night. There too is infinite freedom: it is there that things are going on, destinies are made round you, there is activity to all sides, and it is none of your concern.”

15. “The thing which in the waking world comes nearest to a dream is night in a big town, where nobody knows one, or the African night. There too is infinite freedom: it is there that things are going on, destinies are made round you, there is activity to all sides, and it is none of your concern.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “Why the Kikuyu, who personally have so little fear of death, should be so terrified to touch a corpse, while the white people, who are afraid to die, handle the dead easily, I do not know. Here once more you feel their reality to be different from our realities.”

16. “Why the Kikuyu, who personally have so little fear of death, should be so terrified to touch a corpse, while the white people, who are afraid to die, handle the dead easily, I do not know. Here once more you feel their reality to be different from our realities.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “A medal is an inconvenient thing to give to a naked man, because he has got no place to fix it on to.”

17. “A medal is an inconvenient thing to give to a naked man, because he has got no place to fix it on to.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “Perhaps to them the first condition for anything having real charm was this: that it must not really exist.”

18. “Perhaps to them the first condition for anything having real charm was this: that it must not really exist.”

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Karen Blixen Quote: “I have conquered them all, but I am standing amongst graves.”

19. “I have conquered them all, but I am standing amongst graves.”

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Karen Blixen Quote: “Quando gli dei vogliono punirci, avverano i nostri desideri.”

20. “Quando gli dei vogliono punirci, avverano i nostri desideri.”

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Karen Blixen Quote: “Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.”

21. “Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “When I heard this I became very sad, but I thought that now I would indeed have to take him with me so that the Virgin herself could enlighten him.”

22. “When I heard this I became very sad, but I thought that now I would indeed have to take him with me so that the Virgin herself could enlighten him.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility.”

23. “The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility.”

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Karen Blixen Quote: “He conveyed a strange impression of being in safety, and completely secure. He had a courteous little manner with him, and smiled and nodded, as I pointed out the hills and the tall trees to him, as if he were interested in everything, and incapable of surprise at anything. I wondered if this consistency was produced by an entire ignorance of the evil of the world, or by a deep knowledge and acceptance of it.”

24. “He conveyed a strange impression of being in safety, and completely secure. He had a courteous little manner with him, and smiled and nodded, as I pointed out the hills and the tall trees to him, as if he were interested in everything, and incapable of surprise at anything. I wondered if this consistency was produced by an entire ignorance of the evil of the world, or by a deep knowledge and acceptance of it.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “She had what the Councillor knew, in the technical language of the ballet, as “ballon”, a lightness that is not only the negation of weight, but which actually seems to carry upwards and make for flight, and which is rarely found in thin dancers – as if the matter itself had here become lighter than air, so that the more there is of it the better it works.”

25. “She had what the Councillor knew, in the technical language of the ballet, as “ballon”, a lightness that is not only the negation of weight, but which actually seems to carry upwards and make for flight, and which is rarely found in thin dancers – as if the matter itself had here become lighter than air, so that the more there is of it the better it works.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.”

26. “It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.”

— Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Quote: “It is more than their land that you take away from the people whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see, and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take out their eyes.”

27. “It is more than their land that you take away from the people whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see, and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take out their eyes.”

— Karen Blixen

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