A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
Georg Brandes

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
Georg Brandes

Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.
Georg Brandes

Being gifted needs courage.
Georg Brandes

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
Georg Brandes

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
Georg Brandes

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
Georg Brandes

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.
Georg Brandes

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
Georg Brandes

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
Georg Brandes


I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
Georg Brandes

I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
Georg Brandes

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.
Georg Brandes

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
Georg Brandes

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
Georg Brandes

I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
Georg Brandes

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.
Georg Brandes

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.
Georg Brandes

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
Georg Brandes

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
Georg Brandes