Knut Hamsun Quotes

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. - Knut Hamsun

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate. - Knut Hamsun

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work. - Knut Hamsun

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth. - Knut Hamsun

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it. - Knut Hamsun

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. - Knut Hamsun

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur? - Knut Hamsun

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived. - Knut Hamsun

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