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Hans Christian Andersen Quotes

Total quotes: 23
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, Delphi Complete Works of Hans Christian Andersen(Illustrated) (Delphi Series Seven Book 24)
Tagged: Life, Fairytale, Magical, beauty, Mottos
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of A Mother
Tagged: Death, Wind
“Because she could not go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
Tagged: Desire, Longing, Wonder
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
Tagged: travel, Life, Experience
“Yes, it is wonderful to be alive! Indeed, the Bottle inwardly sang of all this, as do young poets, who frequently also know nothing about the things of which they sing.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck
Tagged: Life, Poets, Singing
“But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?”
— Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales (Leather-bound Classics)
Tagged: Giving, Friendship, Love
“Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
Tagged: dance, Heartbreak, Pain, beauty, Numb
“Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, There Is A Difference
Tagged: purpose, beauty, Service
“Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales (Leather-bound Classics)
Tagged: Living, Life, Freedom
“A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
Tagged: Mermaid, Soul, Love, Destiny
“He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him”
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling
Tagged: Suffering, Sorrow, trouble, enduring, Happiness, Pleasure, Joy
“It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!”
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling
Tagged: empowerment, beauty, aspiration, Outcasts, Potential
“But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
Tagged: Life, Living, Pain, trouble, Problems
“To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales
Tagged: Service, World, Serve, Happiness, Making A Difference
“She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
Tagged: Laughter, Happiness, Thought, Death, heart
“Brave soldier, never fear.
Even though your death is near.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Tagged: Brave, Courage, Fear, Death
“My life will be the best illustration of all my work.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
Tagged: Creativity, Illustration, Life, Work, Writing
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, Music
Tagged: Music, Hans Christian Andersen
“To travel is to live.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales (Leather-bound Classics)
Tagged: travel, Living, The World
“It was the last night that she would
breathe the same air as he, or look out over the deep sea and up into the star-blue heaven. A dreamless,
eternal night awaited her, for she had no soul and had not been able to win one.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
Tagged: Soul, Night
“Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
Tagged: Sacrifice, Pain, heart, Home, Torment
“We have not immortal souls, we shall never live again; but, like the green sea-weed, when once it has been cut off, we can never flourish more. Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars. As we rise out of the water, and behold all the land of the earth, so do they rise to unknown and glorious regions which we shall never see.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
Tagged: Souls, Immortal, human beings, Life, Living
“There was a proud Teapot, proud of being made of porcelain, proud of its long spout and its broad handle. It had something in front of it and behind it; the spout was in front, and the handle behind, and that was what it talked about. But it didn't mention its lid, for it was cracked and it was riveted and full of defects, and we don't talk about our defects - other people do that. The cups, the cream pitcher, the sugar bowl - in fact, the whole tea service - thought much more about the defects in the lid and talked more about it than about the sound handle and the distinguished spout. The Teapot knew this”
— Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
Tagged: Defects, imperfect, Judgement
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