Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to any one who swallows it, in the …

- Jens Peter Jacobsen

Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same: that which is now seen and now g…

- Jens Peter Jacobsen

He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life instead of living…

- Jens Peter Jacobsen

Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our li…

- Jens Peter Jacobsen

For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dr…

- Jens Peter Jacobsen