Dinesen Quotes

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. - Isak Dinesen

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does. - Isak Dinesen

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. - Isak Dinesen

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. - Isak Dinesen

The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept. - Isak Dinesen

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. - Isak Dinesen

Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road. - Isak Dinesen

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90. - Isak Dinesen