Hans Christian Andersen Quotes

Il mare appariva come una volta eterea, come un cielo solido e senza stelle sotto di noi, e nell'aria trasparente si perdeva nell'immensità; nessuna striscia, scura o luminosa, limitava l'orizzonte; c'era una chiarità, una vastità infinita, che non si può dipingere né descrivere, se non nella profondità eterna del pensiero.

Because she could not go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more.

"I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow." "How very terrible,” cried the princess; "is he locked up?" "Oh yes, certainly; for I fear he will never recover." "Poor shadow!" said the princess; "it is very unfortunate for him; it would really be a good deed to free him from his frail existence; and, indeed, when I think how often people take the part of the lower class against the higher, in these days, it would be policy to put him out of the way quietly."

How large the world is,

Every person’s life is a fairytale written by God’s fingers.

"I saw one of his comrades led to execution; he had killed a Frenchman. Many years afterwards this little circumstance occasioned me to write my little poem, "The Soldier," which Chamisso translated into German, and which afterwards was included in the illustrated people's books of soldier-songs."

they made themselves comfortable.

She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

"But he hasn't got anything on," a little child said.

Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.

"A well-bred duckling spreads his feet wide apart, just like his father and mother, in this way. Now bend your neck, and say 'quack.'" The

My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

word is a shadow,” said the shadow, “and as such it must speak.

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.