Knut Hamsun

"I love the beautiful season when the fruits fall from the trees like rain."

"A man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills."

"The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven."

"I have committed the great crime of not being ambitious."

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

"Literature is the most beautiful of all the arts."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"The more I have pondered the riddle of the unhappiness of mankind, the more I have come to believe that there is no riddle at all."

"A man's conscience is a still, small voice that makes you feel even smaller."

"Freedom is a hard-bought thing and not to be had for the asking."

"I have no way of knowing how people talk when I'm not around."

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered."

"There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and revelation, but what He may alter."

"What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?"

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that the very existence of such a world is a form of your freedom."

"I am afraid of our love, of its power, of its permanence."

"I believe in anything that helps sell stories."

"A little of everything makes us happy, too much of something makes us sad."

"My life must count for something."

"I have loved the stars too fondly to fear the night."

"To create, one must first question everything."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."

"Work is the noble and the only possible road to happiness."

"There is a seed of greatness in every human heart."

"The most important thing is to be kind."

"I am nobody. I am a stranger in this world."

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

"The fear of death is the fear of life."