Quotes by Sigrid Undset - Interesting, serious, thoughtful Statements by Nobel Prize-winning Danish-born Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset was born on 20 May 1882 in Kalundborg, Denmark. Sigrid was a Danish-Norwegian novelist. In 1928 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in Denmark and raised in Norway, Sigrid's first books of historical fiction were published in 1907. She moved from Norway to the United States in 1940 due to her opposition to Nazi Germany and the German invasion and occupation of Norway, although she returned after the end of World War II in 1945. Her best-known work is Kristin Lavransdatter, a trilogy about life in Norway in the Middle Ages, depicting one woman's experiences from birth to death. Its three volumes were published between 1920 and 1922. Some interesting, serious, thoughtful statements of the famous and Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset are presented here for your perusal.

I was sent to a school because my father already knew that his days were numbered, and he wanted me to get a good education and follow in his footsteps.

I went to work in an office and learned to do things I didn't care about, and do them well, in addition to other lessons. Before I left this office two of my books were already published.

I'm not so foolish as to grumble if, now that I've had my wine and beer, I have to drink skimmed milk and sour.

I hated school very much. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent during classes.

It's okay when we don't dare to do something we don't think is good and fair, but it's not so good when we don't dare to do something we don't think is good and fair because we don't dare to do it.

All my life I have been equally eager to follow the right path and to take my wrong path.

And as we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He gave us the sun, the moon, and the stars, and the earth, its forests, mountains, and oceans and everything that lives and moves on them. Is. He has given us all green things and all that blooms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused and saved us from our foolishness, from all our sins. For this, He came to earth and gave Himself to us.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and what we love.

All the things a man possesses, he holds more of them than he keeps them.

The most dangerous temptations are not caused by active, sudden flames of desire, the lusts of the flesh, but by the reluctance of the flesh, its laziness and sloth, our tendency to become creatures of habit.

In all those years when I didn't know what to believe and so preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where cool, sweet and pure life-giving water flowed from the dark bosom of the earth I felt like ultimately it would be wrong not to believe anything.

The moral code that remains after the religion that produced it has been rejected is like perfume that remains in an empty bottle.

To do nothing without wasting something.

It is easier for those who will never learn the lesson to retain their youth.

Many men are given what is meant for others, but no man is given another's destiny.

Eventually the entire fire goes out.

No one can escape dogma, those who hold dogma most strongly today are those whose only dogma is that dogma should be feared like the plague. -Sigrid Undset

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