Top 50 Hans Christian Andersen Quotes for a Better Life
Hans Christian Andersen (born 2 April 1805, Odense, Denmark – died 4 August 1875, Rolighed) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travel books, novels, he is best known his fairy tales, such as "The Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", and "The Emperor's New Clothes". His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films.
But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.Where words fail, music speaks.Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.Every man’s life is a fairy tale, written by God’s fingers.To travel is to live.Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.We cannot expect to be happy always... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence.Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.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.Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now...Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!I love you as no love as no love on earth is wrought; I love you now and love you evermore.Well, it’s not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!
They sat close to each other, and he told her a story about her eyes. They were beautiful dark lakes in which her thoughts swam about like mermaids. And her forehead was a snowy mountain, grand and shining. These were lovely stories.
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I can give her no greater power than she has already, said the woman; don't you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, barefooted as she is. She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart. If she cannot herself obtain access to the Snow Queen, and remove the glass fragments from little Kay, we can do nothing to help her.
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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.
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The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them.It doesn’t matter if you’re born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan’s egg!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.The good and the beautiful is not forgotten; it lives in legend and in song.The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.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.I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches....when a storm was coming on, and they anticipated that a ship might sink, they swam before it, and sang most sweetly of the delight to be found beneath the water, begging the seafarers not to be afraid of coming down below.
The matches glowed with a light that was brighter than the noon-day, and her grandmother had never appeared so large or so beautiful. She took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God.
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Death continued to stare at the emperor with his cold, hollow eyes, and the room was fearfully still. Suddenly there came through the open window the sound of sweet music. Outside, on the bough of a tree, sat the living nightingale. She had heard of the emperor's illness, and was therefore come to sing to him of hope and trust. And as she sung, the shadows grew paler and paler; the blood in the emperor's veins flowed more rapidly, and gave life to his weak limbs; and even Death himself listened, and said, 'Go on, little nightingale, go on.'
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You are a dreamer, and that is your misfortune.Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.The sun shines upon good and bad alike.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.My life will be the best illustration of all my work.It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.I will bow myself before him who is influenced by a noble conviction, and who only desires that which is conducive to good, be he prince or man of the people.No, the light is too intense; we do not yet have eyes that can see all the glory God has created. But maybe someday we will have such eyes. That will be the most wonderful fairy tale of all, for we ourselves will be part of it.My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
The birches, waving in the wind, looked as full of life as in summer and as wondrously beautiful. Where the sun shone, everything glittered and sparkled as if diamond dust had been strewn about; and the snowy carpet of the earth seemed covered with diamonds from which gleamed countless lights, whiter even than the snow itself.
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Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.'Rejoice in thy youth,' said the sunbeam; 'rejoice in thy fresh growth and in the young life that is in thee.'I only appear to be dead.
