Hans Christian Andersen Quotes

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

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.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

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.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.