Halldór Laxness Quotes

Immoral women do not exist", said the organist. "That this only a superstition. On the other hand th...

What does hanging on a cross for twenty-four hours mean to a man who has no children,' I said, 'espe...

Life in Oseyri was lived in fish and consisted of fish, and human beings were a sort of abortion whi...

Shortly afterwards it started raining, very innocently at first, but the sky was packed tight with c...

He disliked tears, he has always disliked tears, had never understood them, and sometimes lost his t...

For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more complet...

My opinion has always been this. That you ought never to give up as long as you live, even though th...

A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat

That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, p...

When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.

Asta Sollilja slept on, her head in the corner, mouth open, chin up, and head back, with one hand un...

The distinctive features of the world's civilisations are not simply and solely the giraffe and the ...

Can't we make a blusterer ourselves? asked Jón Hreggviðsson. Can't we scratch that damned sign with ...

Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love th...

...freedom is of more account than the height of a roof beam. I ought to know; mine cost me eighteen...

Man is more perfect than god. Although this woman's doctrine, in which she was brought up from child...

Townsfolk have no conception of the peace that mother nature bestows, and as long as that peace is u...

Remember that every day you quicken into motion waves that undulate on to the very confines of exist...

It was pretty miserable wretches that minded at all whether they were wet or dry. He could not under...

Oh yes", said the old woman, "but I've heard these so-called stoves are by no means all they are sup...

People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent

I know perfectly well that it is impossible, according to arithmetic and scholarly books, to live in...

Often I felt that these men were play-acting: the unreality of their role was their security, even t...

Eins var algengt hjá okkur ef spurt var um líðan einhvers manns: iss hann er feitur; en það þýddi að...

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth tol...

The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born