Isak dinesen salt water quote

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

“All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.”
― Isak Dinesen

“It is a good thing to be a great sinner.

Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings”
― Isak Dinesen

“All the sorrows of life are bearable if only
we can convert them into a story.”
― Isak Dinesen

“Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude.

Grace, brothers, makes no conditions and singles out none of us in particular; grace takes us all to its bosom and proclaims general amnesty. See! That which we have chosen is given us, and that which we