Best Quotes by Hans Christian Andersen (Top 10)
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But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
Hans Christian Andersen
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Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen
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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
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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
Hans Christian Andersen
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen
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Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Hans Christian Andersen
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Andersen
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The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.
Hans Christian Andersen
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Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.
Hans Christian Andersen
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If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and " pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.
Hans Christian Andersen
More Hans Christian Andersen Quotes
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To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.
Hans Christian Andersen
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Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
Hans Christian Andersen
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Andersen
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My life will be the best illustration of all my work.
Hans Christian Andersen
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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
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
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He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was 'eternity', and the Snow Queen had said, "If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates." But he could not find it out.
Hans Christian Andersen
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
Hans Christian Andersen
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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
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Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
Hans Christian Andersen