Frasi di Axel Munthe

„Di tanto in tanto, nella nostra perplessità, arrischiamo una timida domanda al nostro destino, ma senza aver risposta perché le stelle sono troppo lontane. Più presto ci rendiamo conto che il nostro destino è in noi stessi e non nelle stelle, meglio è per noi. Soltanto in noi stessi potremo trovare la felicità. È tempo perso attenderla dagli altri, siano essi uomini o donne. Da soli dobbiamo combattere le nostre battaglie e colpire più forte possibile, combattenti nati come siamo. La pace verrà un giorno per tutti, pace senza disonore, anche per il vinto se ha cercato di fare la sua parte finché ha potuto.“

—  Axel Munthe, libro La storia di San Michele

Origine: La storia di San Michele, p. 415

„Un uomo può sopportare molto finché può sopportare se stesso. Può vivere senza speranza, senza amici, senza libri, perfino senza musica, fino a quando può ascoltare i propri pensieri.“

—  Axel Munthe, libro La storia di San Michele

da La storia di san Michele; citato in Selezione dal Reader's Digest, gennaio 1960, p. 118
La storia di San Michele

„Il diavolo stesso non può niente contro un uomo finché questi sa ridere.“

—  Axel Munthe, libro La storia di San Michele

Origine: La storia di San Michele, p. 367

„Il cane non può dissimulare, non può ingannare, non può mentire, perché non può parlare. Il cane è un santo.“

—  Axel Munthe, libro La storia di San Michele

Origine: La storia di San Michele, p. 64

„Un uomo può sopportare molto, finché può sopportare se stesso. Può vivere senza speranza, senza amici, senza libri, anche senza musica, finché può ascoltare i propri pensieri e il canto di un uccello, fuori della finestra, e la voce lontana del mare.“

—  Axel Munthe, libro La storia di San Michele

Origine: La storia di San Michele, p. 8

„Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.“

—  Axel Munthe

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„The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.“

—  Axel Munthe

„If music be the food of love, play on.“

—  Axel Munthe

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„A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts and to the singing of a bird outside his window and to the far-away voice of the sea.“

—  Axel Munthe, libro La storia di San Michele

Preface, 1928
The Story of San Michele (1929)

„In former days all animals could speak and so could the flowers, the trees and the stones and all lifeless things who were all created by the same God who had created man. Therefore man should be kind to all animals, and treat all lifeless things as if they could still hear and understand. On the day of the Last Judgement the animals would be called in first by God to give evidence against the dead man. Only after the animals had had their say would his fellow creatures be called in as witnesses.“

—  Axel Munthe, libro La storia di San Michele

Origine: The Story of San Michele (1929), Ch. VII

„I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.“

—  Axel Munthe

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„Without music, life would be a mistake.“

—  Axel Munthe

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„One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.“

—  Axel Munthe

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„What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.“

—  Axel Munthe

„The soul needs more space than the body.“

—  Axel Munthe

„Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tube held between his lips draw a few drops of the deadly saliva from the mouth of a rabid bull-dog, held on the table by two assistants, their hands protected by leather gloves.“

—  Axel Munthe

„Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tube held between his lips draw a few drops of the deadly saliva from the mouth of a rabid bull-dog, held on the table by two assistants, their hands protected by leather gloves.“

—  Axel Munthe

„I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence?… I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead.“

—  Axel Munthe

„My home shall be open for the sun and the wind and the voices of the sea - like a Greek temple - and light, light, light everywhere!“

—  Axel Munthe