Knut Hamsun

"Every struggle is a victory if it makes us stronger."

"We live by symbols, not by truth."

"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."

"Art is the effort of man to express, not to expound."

"I would rather have one moment of eternity than all the moments of time."

"Silence is the most powerful scream."

"The mind creates a narrative to cope with chaos."

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."

"I write to understand as much as to be understood."

"Change is the only constant in life."

"You cannot step twice into the same river."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes."

"In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary where we can go and be free."

"Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue."

"I have dreamed a dream, but now that dream has gone from me."

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

"The struggle for life is the law of all things."

"Time is the substance I am made of."

"I am the sum of my actions."

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think."

"A man who does not read has no advantage over a man who cannot read."

"Music is the language of God."

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer."

"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."

"My family is my life."

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"I am my best work – a series of road maps."