Marta Oulie Quotes

“All those wasted and squandered years when I did nothing but go around looking inside myself until I ended up alone even though I was surrounded by people. But I paid attention only to what was happenstance about them - not their true selves.”
― Sigrid Undset, Marta Oulie

“If I were truly talented, as I once imagined I was, then I would have understood long ago that life is just about people.”
― Sigrid Undset, Marta Oulie

“Just as we are conceived and born from the lives of others, we must sustain our daily lives with what we receive from others. And we must pay for it by giving of ourselves every single day.”
― Sigrid Undset, Marta Oulie

“Don’t do it if it’s not something you want to do, Marta. These matters can’t possibly look the same to you, standing in the midst of life, as they do to me. You should understand that you mustn’t do it for my sake, but for your own.”
― Sigrid Undset, Marta Oulie

“I stared until I was blind at the fact that Otto didn’t understand me. It never occurred to me that I didn’t understand him.”
― Sigrid Undset, Marta Oulie

“I get annoyed whenever people try to be sympathetic, and annoyed when they don’t.”
― Sigrid Undset, Marta Oulie

“What does it matter if one person has black hair and another brown, one has a straight back and another stoops? Our bodies brea
the life in the same fashion; blood runs through our veins, and we require food and drink. Our souls need the same things, suffer the same hunger and thirst.”
― Sigrid Undset, Marta Oulie

“So many paths have led me astray . . . But now things are going to be different. I don’t know what life is, but it is not loneliness.”
― Sigrid Undset, Marta Oulie