Isak DinesenThinkers

Coffee is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

Death is a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

Dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

The German is a people in whom there is a peculiar sense of life as a mathematical problem which is known to have a solution.

Life is related to death in that they are two locked caskets, each of which contains the key to the other.

Man (male) is a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shire into urine.

Salt is, in one way or the other, the cure for everything, be it sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

Salt water is the cure for anything, be it in the form of sweat, tears, or the sea.

Wine is the meaning of life — man is nothing but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine.