Isak Dinesen Stories Quotations

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

The divine art is the story.

Within our whole universe the story only has the authority to answer that cry of heart of its characters, that one cry of heart of each of them: "Who am I?"

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story.