Quotes from Knut Hamsun

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

What will I do when I can no longer dig?

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.