More Quotes by Hans Christian Andersen
Where words fail, music speaks.
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
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.
Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence
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
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
The sun shines upon good and bad alike.