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Top 30 Tove Ditlevsen Quotes (2026 Update)

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Med ingen kan man dele sine inderste tanker. Det vigtigste i verden er man alene med.”

1. “Med ingen kan man dele sine inderste tanker. Det vigtigste i verden er man alene med.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Hygge is a state of being you experience if you are at peace with yourself, your spouse, the tax authorities and your inner organs.”

2. “Hygge is a state of being you experience if you are at peace with yourself, your spouse, the tax authorities and your inner organs.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own.”

3. “Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “There’s a young girl in me who refuses to die.”

4. “There’s a young girl in me who refuses to die.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.”

5. “Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.”

6. “Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Hun gav sig omsider til at elske verden, men kun fordi den skulle udslettes sammen med hende.”

7. “Hun gav sig omsider til at elske verden, men kun fordi den skulle udslettes sammen med hende.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “I wrote love poems to the man in the moon, to Ruth, or to no one at all. I thought my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn’t yet fallen off completely. Would my adult form be shaped by my poems? I wondered. During that time I was almost always depressed. The wind in the street blew so cold through my tall, thin body that the world regarded with disapproving looks.”

8. “I wrote love poems to the man in the moon, to Ruth, or to no one at all. I thought my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn’t yet fallen off completely. Would my adult form be shaped by my poems? I wondered. During that time I was almost always depressed. The wind in the street blew so cold through my tall, thin body that the world regarded with disapproving looks.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Even though no one else cares for my poems, I have to write them because it dulls the sorrow and longing in my heart.”

9. “Even though no one else cares for my poems, I have to write them because it dulls the sorrow and longing in my heart.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Nu vallen de laatste resten van mij af als schilfers van een door de zon verbrande huid en eronder komt een ongepaste, onmogelijke volwassene tevoorschijn. Ik lees in mijn poesiealbum terwijl de nacht langs het raam wandelt en zonder dat het doorheb, glijdt mijn kindertijd stilletjes naar de bodem van mijn herinneringen, die bibliotheek van het gemoed, waaruit ik voor de rest van mijn hele bestaan kennis en ervaring zal opdiepen.”

10. “Nu vallen de laatste resten van mij af als schilfers van een door de zon verbrande huid en eronder komt een ongepaste, onmogelijke volwassene tevoorschijn. Ik lees in mijn poesiealbum terwijl de nacht langs het raam wandelt en zonder dat het doorheb, glijdt mijn kindertijd stilletjes naar de bodem van mijn herinneringen, die bibliotheek van het gemoed, waaruit ik voor de rest van mijn hele bestaan kennis en ervaring zal opdiepen.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “I sink into a sweet melancholy and rhythmic waves of words stream through me again.”

11. “I sink into a sweet melancholy and rhythmic waves of words stream through me again.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Being you is itself temporary, fragile, and ephemeral. You have to get through it – it has no other meaning.”

12. “Being you is itself temporary, fragile, and ephemeral. You have to get through it – it has no other meaning.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Meanwhile I am only twenty years old, and the days descend on me un-noticeably like dust, each one just like the rest.”

13. “Meanwhile I am only twenty years old, and the days descend on me un-noticeably like dust, each one just like the rest.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Childhood is dark and it’s always moaning like a little animal that’s locked in a cellar and forgotten. It comes out of your throat like your breath in the cold, and sometimes it’s too little, other times too big. It never fits exactly. It’s only when it has been cast off that you can look at it calmly and talk about it like an illness you’ve survived.”

14. “Childhood is dark and it’s always moaning like a little animal that’s locked in a cellar and forgotten. It comes out of your throat like your breath in the cold, and sometimes it’s too little, other times too big. It never fits exactly. It’s only when it has been cast off that you can look at it calmly and talk about it like an illness you’ve survived.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Wherever you turn, you run up against your childhood and hurt yourself because it’s sharp-edged and hard, and stops only when it has torn you completely apart. It seems that everyone has their own and each is totally different. My brother’s childhood is very noisy, for example, while mine is quiet and furtive and watchful. No one likes it and no one has any use for it.”

15. “Wherever you turn, you run up against your childhood and hurt yourself because it’s sharp-edged and hard, and stops only when it has torn you completely apart. It seems that everyone has their own and each is totally different. My brother’s childhood is very noisy, for example, while mine is quiet and furtive and watchful. No one likes it and no one has any use for it.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “I always think there is a mystical understanding between the moon and the street, like between two sisters who have grown old together and no longer need any language to communicate with each other.”

16. “I always think there is a mystical understanding between the moon and the street, like between two sisters who have grown old together and no longer need any language to communicate with each other.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Nadja, who is always hunting for a man, but always the wrong one, is trying to get together with Ebbe’s brother Karsten, who she would fit like a ring in his nose.”

17. “Nadja, who is always hunting for a man, but always the wrong one, is trying to get together with Ebbe’s brother Karsten, who she would fit like a ring in his nose.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “The most important thing, thought Edith, is what happens to a person when they see mountains. The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can’t have. That’s where all the happiness is.”

18. “The most important thing, thought Edith, is what happens to a person when they see mountains. The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can’t have. That’s where all the happiness is.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “That’s the worst thing about grownups, I think – they can never admit that just once in their lives they’ve acted wrongly or irresponsibly. They’re so quick to judge others, but they never hold Judgement Day for themselves.”

19. “That’s the worst thing about grownups, I think – they can never admit that just once in their lives they’ve acted wrongly or irresponsibly. They’re so quick to judge others, but they never hold Judgement Day for themselves.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “It’s difficult to keep a grasp on yourself when things around you change.”

20. “It’s difficult to keep a grasp on yourself when things around you change.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “And I want so badly to own my own time instead of always having to sell it.”

21. “And I want so badly to own my own time instead of always having to sell it.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Her entire character consisted of a pile of memories without a pattern or a plan.”

22. “Her entire character consisted of a pile of memories without a pattern or a plan.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Every person has their own truth just as every child has their own childhood.”

23. “Every person has their own truth just as every child has their own childhood.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “She no longer belonged to herself. No matter where she sought refuge, people had unashamedly formed an image of her over which she had no control.”

24. “She no longer belonged to herself. No matter where she sought refuge, people had unashamedly formed an image of her over which she had no control.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “I carried the cups out to the kitchen, and inside of me long, mysterious words began to crawl across my soul like a protective membrane. A song, a poem, something soothing and rhythmic and immensely pensive, but never distressing or sad, as I knew the rest of my day would be distressing and sad. When these light waves of words streamed through me, I knew that my mother couldn’t do anything else to me because she had stopped being important to me.”

25. “I carried the cups out to the kitchen, and inside of me long, mysterious words began to crawl across my soul like a protective membrane. A song, a poem, something soothing and rhythmic and immensely pensive, but never distressing or sad, as I knew the rest of my day would be distressing and sad. When these light waves of words streamed through me, I knew that my mother couldn’t do anything else to me because she had stopped being important to me.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Slowly, numbed, I walk through the city’s spring, the others’ spring, the others’ joyous transformation, the others’ happiness. I’ll never be famous, my poems are worthless. I’ll marry a stable skilled worker who doesn’t drink, or get a steady job with a pension. After that deadly disappointment, a long time passes before I write in my poetry album again. Even though no one else cares for my poems, I have to write them because it dulls the sorrow and longing in my heart.”

26. “Slowly, numbed, I walk through the city’s spring, the others’ spring, the others’ joyous transformation, the others’ happiness. I’ll never be famous, my poems are worthless. I’ll marry a stable skilled worker who doesn’t drink, or get a steady job with a pension. After that deadly disappointment, a long time passes before I write in my poetry album again. Even though no one else cares for my poems, I have to write them because it dulls the sorrow and longing in my heart.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Peace meant not existing in other people’s consciousness.”

27. “Peace meant not existing in other people’s consciousness.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Het is lastig om jezelf te blijven als de dingen om je heen constant van vorm veranderen.”

28. “Het is lastig om jezelf te blijven als de dingen om je heen constant van vorm veranderen.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “You can’t control your circumstances. You can’t control your fate. All you can do is avoid people whose words stir things up, secret things, that absolutely must not be stirred up.”

29. “You can’t control your circumstances. You can’t control your fate. All you can do is avoid people whose words stir things up, secret things, that absolutely must not be stirred up.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Below his tired eyes there were deep smoke-colored shadows, and two wrinkles ran down his cheeks as if they were tracks made by tears.”

30. “Below his tired eyes there were deep smoke-colored shadows, and two wrinkles ran down his cheeks as if they were tracks made by tears.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “Why doesn’t it dawn on a person that their parents had their own lives separate from their children, until it’s too late to ask them how it was?”

31. “Why doesn’t it dawn on a person that their parents had their own lives separate from their children, until it’s too late to ask them how it was?”

— Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen Quote: “My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I’ve gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me against their peculiar meanness toward anyone who is different.”

32. “My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I’ve gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me against their peculiar meanness toward anyone who is different.”

— Tove Ditlevsen

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