The best Quotes by Karen Blixen

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.

It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.

There is a particular happiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.

Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.

It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears!

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

The human world... it's a mess.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

The ocean is where I go
To lose my mind and find my soul

Sweat is the urine of the skin.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Wanna know what's on this beetle's diet? Sweat and tears, that's what! That's how it gets stronger... I think we can all learn somethin' from that!

Four months ago, I was an Indian loser with cystic acne, sweaty armpits, and glasses. But with Lasik procedure, an Accutane prescription, and medical-grade Botox injected into my armpits, I'm normal.

Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

True love stories never have endings.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.