Johan Christian Andersen

Poet Novelist Danish 1773 – 1859

Danish writer and poet of the Golden Age.

388 quotes

"Life is not found in atoms, nor in blood drops, it is in thought."
Life
"To be or not to be is not the question. To live or not to live is."
Life
"Love is the most beautiful of all feelings."
Love
"Where words fail, music speaks."
Music
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Time
"Every man has his dream, but not every man can fulfill it."
Dreams
"The greatest happiness is to be needed."
Happiness
"A person's true wealth is the good they do in the world."
Wisdom
"If you declare that you are happy, you will make others so too."
Happiness
"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
Life
"It takes a long time to become young."
Wisdom
"The years teach us much which the days never know."
Time
"Be like the sun and moon, when you go down, go down in magnificence."
Strength
"To travel is to live."
Adventure
"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."
Life
"Courage is to stand by what you believe in."
Courage
"There is a comfort in the strength of love."
Love
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Education
"When you dream, dream big and believe in it with all your heart."
Dreams
"The most dangerous thing to our mind is not to know what the present day is."
Knowledge
"Friendship is the greatest gift you can give someone."
Friendship
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."
Hope
"Every human heart is a doorway to eternity."
Faith
"The truth will always be the truth, no matter what."
Truth
"I too believed in magic, when I was young."
Imagination
"Sorrow is the price we pay for love."
Love
"Every moment wasted on anger is a moment of happiness lost."
Patience
"The soul that has believed in beauty, can never lose its wings."
Beauty
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Kindness
"Art is the mirror of the soul."
Art