Hans Christian AndersenNothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence374Love
Hans Christian AndersenHe looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely. A door was su… ▶331DeathLoveTime
Hans Christian AndersenBut shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power? ✨ Hans Christian Andersen, Jean Hersholt (1948). Hans Christian Andersen… ▶344Politics
Hans Christian AndersenIt is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.356PoliticsThought
Hans Christian AndersenBut the Emperor has nothing at all on! ✨ 'The Emperor's New Clothes' in 'Danish Fairy Legends and Tales' (1846); first Danish collection 'Eventyr, fortalte for bírn' (1835)<… ▶367Philosophy
Hans Christian AndersenEverything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.335Life
Hans Christian AndersenMy life will be the best illustration of all my work.358Life
Hans Christian AndersenTravelling expands the mind rarely. ✨ Hans Christian Andersen (2015). What the Moon Saw and Other Tales, p.123, Library of Alexandria3710Thought
Hans Christian AndersenHe 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… ▶336Time
Hans Christian AndersenTo be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg. ✨ Hans Christian Andersen (1867). Hans Andersen's fairy tales… ▶3610Death
Hans Christian AndersenShe thought, He whom I love more than my father or mother, he of whom I am always thinking, and in whose hands I would so willingly trust my lifelong happiness. I dare do anything… ▶271DeathLifeLove
Hans Christian AndersenI have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is… ▶337LifeReadingThought
Hans Christian AndersenFarewell, farewell, said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt th… ▶316Love
Hans Christian AndersenIf 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 di… ▶327Reflection
Hans Christian AndersenAt first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead… ▶283DeathHumanity
Hans Christian AndersenLife itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. ✨ Hans Henrik Jacobsen, Hans Christian Andersen (1969). A visit to Funen with Hans Christian Andersen283Life
Hans Christian AndersenIt 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. ✨ Hans Christian Anders… ▶317LifePolitics
Hans Christian AndersenTo 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.317Sadness
Hans Christian AndersenJust living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.284Life
Hans Christian AndersenWhere words fail, music speaks. ✨ Hans Christian Andersen (1876). Stories for the Young273Reading
Hans Christian AndersenThe whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.306Philosophy
Hans Christian AndersenLife is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.329Life
Hans Christian AndersenEighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.243Time
Hans Christian AndersenAlmighty 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! ✨ Hans Ch… ▶221Love
Hans Christian AndersenBut a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more. ✨ Hans Christian Andersen (2015). The Little Mermaid: English & Bulgarian, p.10, Hans Christian Andersen<… ▶277Humanity
Hans Christian AndersenTo be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.277Politics
Hans Christian AndersenDoes all the beauty of the world stop when you die? No, said the Old Oak; it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of. Well, then, said the little May-fly, we have… ▶211DeathThoughtTime
Hans Christian AndersenMy life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. ✨ Hans Christian Andersen (2013). The True Story of My Life, Lulu Press, Inc266LifeLoveTruth
Hans Christian AndersenTo travel is to live. ✨ Beth Wagner Brust, Hans Christian Andersen (1994). The Amazing Paper Cuttings of Hans Christian Andersen, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt245Reading
Hans Christian AndersenDeath walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken. ✨ The Story of a Mother. Story by Hans Christian Andersen, 1847.223Death
