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Sigrid Undset Quotes

Sigrid Undset quotes

Norwegian Novelist, Writer May 20, 1882 – June 10, 1949

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Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love which she had lost and still secretly mourned; from anguished joy over the pale, luminous love which drew her to the farthest boundaries of life on this earth. Through the great darkness that would come, she saw the gleam of another, gentler sun, and she sensed the fragrance of the herbs in the garden at world's end. Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset quote: "No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and..."
No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love. Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset quote: "Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost..."
Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe. Sigrid Undset
I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps. Sigrid Undset
And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself. Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset quote: "All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and..."
All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path. Sigrid Undset
I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published. Sigrid Undset
Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth. Sigrid Undset
It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it. Sigrid Undset
... with the few small spots of light like golden stars in the night, the sweet stale scent of incense, and the warm smell of the burning wax. And she at rest within her own star. Sigrid Undset
One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague. Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset quote: "I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was..."
I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years. Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset quote: "Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man..."
Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate. Sigrid Undset

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