Quotes from Fridtjof Nansen

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places.

The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man.

Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

The starry sky is the truest friend in life, when you first become acquainted; it is ever there, it gives ever peace, ever reminds you that your restlessness, your doubt, your pains are passing trivialities. The universe is and will remain unshaken. Our opinions, our struggles, or sufferings are not so important and unique, when all is said and done.

beneath this crust, hundreds of fathoms down, there teems a world of checkered life in all its changing forms, a world of the same composition as ours, with the same instincts, the same sorrows, and also, no doubt, the same joys; everywhere the same struggle for existence. So it ever is. If we penetrate within even the hardest shell we come upon the pulsations of life, however thick the crust may be.

Hope is a rickety craft to trust one's self to. I

The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.

Most people are satisfied too soon, and that is the reason why there is so little wisdom in the world.

The difficult is what takes a little time, the impossible is what takes a little longer.

I have weighed all the dogs and have come to the conclusion that we can feed them on each other and keep going for about fifty days, having, in addition to this, dog provisions for about thirty days, we ought to be able to travel with dogs for eighty days, and in that time it seems to me we should have arrived somewhere.

Cerul înstelat este ce cel mai sincer prieten din via??; este mereu acolo, î?i d? întotdeauna pace, î?i aminte?te mereu c? nelini?tea ta, îndoiala ta, durerile tale sunt nimicuri trec?toare. Universul este ?i va r?mâne de neclintit. Când tragem linie, opiniile noastre, luptele noastre, suferin?ele noastre nu sunt a?a de importante ?i de unice.

Du kan tenke dig seks bitte små mygg marsjerende over et forferdelig stort laken.

Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.