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
path right-road my-own
All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.
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.
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.
today dogma should
One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.
flames lust temptation
the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.
wine beer drunk
I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.
soon-enough may done
God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.