Quotes by : Halldór Laxness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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