Isak Dinesen Quotes

I love music but, of course, I'd choose love over that.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

People should go see 'Premium' because it's a great story about love and the person who shaped us as the people we eventually become. There are a bunch of laughs as well as poignant thinking moments. It's a story about the human experience, and so many people can relate to it. Plus we need the money!

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something that I just can't understand, I have to "poem" my way through it. For that reason I write a lot about family, because my family confuses me and I'm always trying to figure them out. I write a lot about love, because love is continually confusing in all of its many glorious aspects.

But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

Love child!" What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.

At 22, there’s a lot of trying to figure out love, which at the end of the day, I’ve realized I’ll never figure out, though the process of trying is fun.

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

Because simplicity isn't the greatest thing in the world, but love.

Rose and I have gone on the most incredible journey over the past two years

Everything I know, I know because of love.

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.