I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth." "And which do you love best?" "The…

- Knut Hamsun

An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appear…

- Knut Hamsun

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unles…

- Knut Hamsun

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think id…

- Knut Hamsun

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

- Knut Hamsun

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

- Knut Hamsun

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

- Knut Hamsun

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

- Knut Hamsun

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

- Knut Hamsun