Selma Lagerlöf Quotes

No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it.

Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.

It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.

Women can do nothing that has permanence.

Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.

More die in flight than in battle.

The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.

It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.

Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.

What is so certain of victory as patience?

For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.

There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.

There is so little that one can do for the dead!

It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.