What did Sigrid Undset mean by: Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another’s fate. Sigrid Undset Author · Norway Copy
The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Sigrid Undset, Conflict, Education, Freedom, 0 Sigrid Undset Author · Norway
All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Sigrid Undset, Desire, Exploration, Independence, 0 Sigrid Undset Author · Norway
All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Sigrid Undset, Attachment, Ownership, Possessions, 0 Sigrid Undset Author · Norway
But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Sigrid Undset, Consequences, Sin, 0 Sigrid Undset Author · Norway
Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Sigrid Undset, Lessons, Wisdom, Youth, 0 Sigrid Undset Author · Norway
No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Sigrid Undset, Fear, Harm, Love, 0 Sigrid Undset Author · Norway
I saw not till now what sin brings with it – that we must tread others underfoot. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Sigrid Undset, Oppression, Realization, Sin, 0 Sigrid Undset Author · Norway
Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Whoe’er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be. 1st Baron Lansdowne Politician · United Kingdom
