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....

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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