Quotes by : Halldór Laxness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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