Sigrid Undset Professions : Novelist Born : May 20, 1882 Died : June 10, 1949 Browse All Authors Top 27 quotes by Sigrid Undset The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom. Sigrid Undset schools-and-education hated school It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it. Sigrid Undset dare good-things thinking No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love. Sigrid Undset and-love life children And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself. Sigrid Undset ocean christmas stars All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path. Sigrid Undset right-road my-own path All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them. Sigrid Undset all-things men In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where living water welled up, blessedly cold and sweet and pure, from the earth's dark bosom, I felt that after all it must be wrong not to believe in anything. Sigrid Undset dark sweet believe Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love which she had lost and still secretly mourned; from anguished joy over the pale, luminous love which drew her to the farthest boundaries of life on this earth. Through the great darkness that would come, she saw the gleam of another, gentler sun, and she sensed the fragrance of the herbs in the garden at world's end. Sigrid Undset garden grief heart Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson. Sigrid Undset youth lessons ignorance The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle. Sigrid Undset empty morality bottles the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit. Sigrid Undset flames lust temptation Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate. Sigrid Undset fate given men One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague. Sigrid Undset dogma should today Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth. Sigrid Undset heart lying son The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand. Sigrid Undset prayer advice needs No doing without some ruing. Sigrid Undset regret I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes. Sigrid Undset education class school All fires burn out at last. Sigrid Undset burn-out lasts fire I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published. Sigrid Undset office two book I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps. Sigrid Undset education father school Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
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