# Quote — Sigrid Undset, The Cross

> Ever since the infant had died, she had wondered why she should pray.

- Author: [Sigrid Undset](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sigrid-undset.md)
- Book: [The Cross](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sigrid-undset/the-cross.md)
- Page: 255
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## More from this book

> “It has been the fate of many a man,” said Naakkve, “that those who were his fiercest opponents in life found success on the road he had pointed out to them—but only after they had made him into fodder for the worms. After his mouth was stuffed with earth, the lesser men no longer shrank from affirming the truth of his words.”

p. 306 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sigrid-undset/the-cross/it-has-been.md)

> It’s useless to be frightened; fearful men are half dead already.

p. 401 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sigrid-undset/the-cross/its-useless-to-be-frightened.md)

> She had not come to God with her wreath or with her sins and sorrows, not as long as the world still possessed a drop of sweetness to add to her goblet. But now she had come, after she had learned that the world is like an alehouse: the person who has no more to spend is thrown outside the door.

p. 371 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sigrid-undset/the-cross/she-had-not.md)