"When the bird of the heart begins..." - Quote by Hans Christian Andersen
When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.
More by Hans Christian Andersen
“I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.”
“I only appear to be dead.”
“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
More on Emotion
“Sometimes when relationships end, you write an e-mail and say everything you wish you said. Sometimes you don't push send.”
“I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.”
“When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.”
More on Reason
“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.”
“I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.”