Hans Christian Andersen Quotes

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

I can give her no greater power than she has already, said the woman; don't you see how strong that ...

He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he ...

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Then your tail will divide and shrink until it becomes what the people on earth call a pair of shape...

Then little Gerda said the Lord's Prayer; the cold was so intense that she could see her own breath;...

His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and bea...

Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a live...

Where words fail, music speaks.

Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, h...

Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flowe...

But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the roc...

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,To gain all while you give,To roam the roads of lands remote,T...

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

To travel is to live.

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

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

But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the...