Author: Georg Brandes

Quotes

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

- Georg Brandes

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

- Georg Brandes

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

- Georg Brandes

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

- Georg Brandes

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

- Georg Brandes

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

- Georg Brandes

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

- Georg Brandes

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

- Georg Brandes

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

- Georg Brandes

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