Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undsetwas a Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 May 1882
CountryNorway
education school class
I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.
christmas stars ocean
And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.
bottles morality empty
The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.
path right-road my-own
All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.
thinking dare wells
tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it ...
school hated schools-and-education
I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom
people sin realizing
But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.
school years resistance
I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.
sweet believe dark
In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where living water welled up, blessedly cold and sweet and pure, from the earth's dark bosom, I felt that after all it must be wrong not to believe in anything.
thinking good-things dare
It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.
life children and-love
No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.
men all-things
All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.
book two office
I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.
lying heart son
Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth.