After a little while you became aware of how still it was out here. Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel like it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

— Isak Dinesen

After being told that the Professor “found it possible to believe for a moment in the existence of God,” ISAF thought, “Has it been possible to God, at Mount Elton, to believe for a moment in the existence of Professor Land green?

— Isak Dinesen

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

— Isak Dinesen

I don't think that ... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death....

— Isak Dinesen

I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death.

— Isak Dinesen

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing like a hidden physical defect.

— Isak Dinesen

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.

— Isak Dinesen

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

— Isak Dinesen

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

— Isak Dinesen

It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives.

— Isak Dinesen