Karen Blixen Quotes

I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of “religiousness” is the condition for real happiness.

It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.

Eros colpisce come il fabbro con il martello
sprizzando scintille dalla sfida.
Hai spento il mio cuore tra lacrime e lamenti,
come si spegne un fuoco incandescente del ruscello.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

Iš visų civilizacijos išradimų čiabuviai daugiausia vertina degtukus, dviratį ir šautuvą, jei jais žavisi, tačiau ir jų nedvejodami atsisakys, jei tik užeis kalba apie karvę.

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.