Knut Hamsun Quotes

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their...

An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by...

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and n...

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we ha...

God help me, how Tolstoy sweats over drying up people's sources of life, of wild and joyful life, dr...

But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. ...

God is forgotten, the mighty dollar has taken his place and the mechanic cannot ease the troubled so...

I opened my eyes; how could I keep them shut when I could not sleep? The same darkness brooded over ...

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious ...

The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wou...

Well, God be with you,’ she said as she finally left him. ’I’m sure He is,’ he replied. She gave a s...

No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the worl...

And here we go creating great men out of artisans who happened to have stumbled on a way to improve ...

That room was Rolandsen’s world. Rolandsen was not just irresponsibility and inebriation, he was als...

They walked away from the sea, Rolandsen in the lead. He kept to the edge of the road, in the snow, ...

He was quite a Casanova, no doubt about it. He was in a very good mood today and stopped longer than...

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effo...

You are right; I am not good at moving in society. Be merciful. You do not understand me; I live in ...

But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creatio...

Young hearts have their unfathomable depths.

It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.

The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor in...