19 quotes
Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”
"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."
on Death
"Where words fail, music speaks."
on Art
"But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock."
on Resilience
"My life will be the best illustration of all my work."
on Creativity
"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."
on Happiness
"Travelling expands the mind rarely."
on Travel
"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers."
on Faith
"Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers."
"But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more."
on Philosophy
"Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale."
"To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,To gain all while you give,To roam the roads of lands remote,To travel is to live."
"To travel is to live."
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
"It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!"
on Identity
"Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken."
"Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;"
"Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater."
on Heartbreak
