Quotes by : Knut Hamsun

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their....

The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual....

I opened my eyes; how could I keep them shut when I could not sleep? The same darkness brooded over me;....

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort;....

You are right; I am not good at moving in society. Be merciful. You do not understand me; I live in the....

He was quite a Casanova, no doubt about it. He was in a very good mood today and stopped longer than....

They walked away from the sea, Rolandsen in the lead. He kept to the edge of the road, in the snow, to....

Was it really right to look the way he did? His prominent nose was altogether too immodest for his humble....

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have....

A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises I shoulder my gun in silent....