Hans Christian Andersen Quotes

The sea is softer than your delicate hands, and yet it can alter the shape of hard stones.

mermaids have no tears, and therefore they suffer more.

And they both sat there, grown up, yet children at heart; and it was summer, - warm, beautiful summer.

In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

At leve er ikke nok. Solskin, frihed og en lille blomst må man ha

The Ugly Duckling The classic story by Hans Christian

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

Where words fail, music speaks.

We have not immortal souls, we shall never live again; but, like the green sea-weed, when once it has been cut off, we can never flourish more. Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars. As we rise out of the water, and behold all the land of the earth, so do they rise to unknown and glorious regions which we shall never see.

"But he hasn't got anything on!" the whole town cried out at last.

Early in the morning, a peasant, who was passing by, saw what had happened. He broke the ice in pieces with his wooden shoe, and carried the duckling home to his wife. The warmth revived the poor

There was once a king's son. Nobody had so many or such beautiful books as he had. He could read about everything which had ever happened in the world, and see it all represented in the most beautiful pictures.

It is only with the heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible to the eye.

"alone," said the mother, "he is"

Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.