Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard Quotes

“It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted. But why should not their own thoughts be good enough for other people to tell them?”
― Isak Dinesen, Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard

“Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course through rocks and plains to run into an ocean which is not to be found. For God does not create a longing or a hope without having a fulfilling reality ready for them. But our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.”
― Isak Dinesen, Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard

“It took them both by surprise like an amazing, brilliant idea from an outside world which they had forgotten.”
― Isak Dinesen, Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard