Sigrid Undset Quotes

• All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.

  Sigrid Undset

  Path, Right Road, My Own

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• 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

  Christmas, Stars, Ocean

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• 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

  Thinking, Good Things, Dare

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• No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

  Sigrid Undset

  Life, Children, And Love

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• The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

  Sigrid Undset

  School, Hated, Schools And Education

  "Sigrid Undset on saints and sinners: new translations and studies".

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• All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

  Sigrid Undset

  Men, All Things

  Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Mistress of Husaby: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.180, Vintage

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• 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, Temptation, Lust

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• No doing without some ruing.

  Sigrid Undset

  Regret

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• 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

  Bottles, Morality, Empty

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• 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

  Sweet, Believe, Dark

  Sigrid Undset (1939). “Men, women, and places”

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• Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.

  Sigrid Undset

  Ignorance, Lessons, Youth

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• Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

  Sigrid Undset

  Fate, Men, Given

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• All fires burn out at last.

  Sigrid Undset

  Fire, Lasts, Burn Out

  Sigrid Undset (1927). “The cross”

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• 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

  Today, Dogma, Should

  Deal Wyatt Hudson, Sigrid Undset (1993). “Sigrid Undset on saints and sinners: new translations and studies : papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Wethersfield Institute, New York City, April 24, 1993”, Ignatius Pr

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• 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

  Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.45, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Grief, Heart, Garden

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• But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.

  Sigrid Undset

  People, Realizing, Sin

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• 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

  Lying, Heart, Son

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• Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it.

  Sigrid Undset

  Thinking, Dare, Wells

  Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.213, Vintage

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• I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.

  Sigrid Undset

  Saws, Sin, Wrongdoing

  Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.214, Vintage

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• I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.

  Sigrid Undset

  Wine, Beer, Drunk

  Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.44, Vintage

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• 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, School, Class

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Book, Two, Office

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• God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

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  Soon Enough, Done, May

  Sigrid Undset (2013). “The Axe: The Master of Hestviken”, p.144, Vintage

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• 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

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