Quotes by : Halldór Laxness

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

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

...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 childhood,....

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

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

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

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

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

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