26 quotes found
“To travel is to live.”
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
“Travelling expands the mind rarely.”
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale.”
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
“Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,To gain all while you give,To roam the roads of lands remote,To travel is to live.”
“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”
“My life will be the best illustration of all my work.”
“Then your tail will divide and shrink until it becomes what the people on earth call a pair of shapely legs. But it will hurt; it will feel as if a sharp sword slashed through you. Everyone who see...”
“But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock.”
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”
“Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!”
“I can give her no greater power than she has already, said the woman; don't you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, bar...”
“He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely. A door was suddenly opened, t...”
“Grantnot my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;”
“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
“His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is...”
“Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.”
“It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!”
“Then little Gerda said the Lord's Prayer; the cold was so intense that she could see her own breath; it came out of her mouth like smoke. Her breath became thicker and thicker, and took the form of...”
“Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
