You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters! — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art. — Halldór Laxness Art Copy Share Image
It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything. — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“...nothing is true that cannot be proven--and therefore, it's not true.” — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“a land even more remote, America, which is farther than death.” — Halldór Laxness America Copy Share Image
For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him. — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born” — Halldór Laxness Cost of living Copy Share Image
Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves… — Halldór Laxness Country Copy Share Image
A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose… — Halldór Laxness Children Copy Share Image
“That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing… — Halldór Laxness Capitalism Copy Share Image
“She herself had given up washing long ago, and besides, people no longer believed in stale urine, either for one purpose or… — Halldór Laxness Heart Copy Share Image
“People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent” — Halldór Laxness Politicians Copy Share Image
“So I see no reason why, just because a couple of womenfolk have kicked the bucket, people should start writing religion about… — Halldór Laxness Religion Copy Share Image
“It was pretty miserable wretches that minded at all whether they were wet or dry. He could not understand why such people… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“He did not know what to say in the face of such sorrow. He sat in silence by his sister's side in… — Halldor Laxness Copy Share Image
“When I was a child I was told that whoever swallowed a hock-bone would one day own land," she said. "Have you… — Halldór Laxness Children Copy Share Image
“Presently the small of coffee began to fill the room. This was morning’s hallowed moment. In such a fragrance the perversity of… — Halldór Laxness Coffee Copy Share Image
“The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it;… — Halldor Laxness Copy Share Image
The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little;… — Halldór Laxness Children Copy Share Image
“We Danes have always been charitable in our trading operations with Iceland. And when our deceased Highness monopolized trade with the island… — Halldór Laxness Danes Copy Share Image
“Now pastor Jón Prímus laughed. Philosophy and theology have no effect on him, much less plain common sense. Impossible to convince this… — Halldór Laxness Humor Copy Share Image
“He disliked tears, he has always disliked tears, had never understood them, and sometimes lost his temper over them; but he felt… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“Tumi Jónsen has now started to tell the Icelandic sagas in a style that consists principally of casting doubt on the story… — Halldór Laxness Poetry Copy Share Image
Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“The most remarkable thing about a man's dreams is that they will all come true; this has always been the case, though… — Halldór Laxness Brother and sister Copy Share Image
My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“One can be one's own ghost and roam about in various places, sometimes many places simultaneously. Perhaps I didn't approach it quite… — Halldor Laxness Ghost Copy Share Image
“She was like defenceless Nature, that withers in the blast because it has shelter neither of God nor of men; human beings… — Halldór Laxness Nature Copy Share Image
“But he could not help it. No one can help it. One is a realist. One has put up with it all… — Halldor Laxness Children Copy Share Image
“The undersigned pointed out that nothing was required of a pastor except that he intimate in church at the dead man's bier… — Halldór Laxness Dead man Copy Share Image
“He did not know what to say in the face of such sorrow. He sat in silence by his sister's side in… — Halldor Laxness Copy Share Image
“Can't we make a blusterer ourselves? asked Jón Hreggviðsson. Can't we scratch that damned sign with the ax-point onto the chopping block… — Halldór Laxness Animal kingdom Copy Share Image
“Because no one of us lives for himself and no one dies for himself. For if we live, then we live for… — Halldór Laxness Creation Copy Share Image
“And Ásta Sóllilja, it was she who swept on wings of poetry into those spheres which she had sensed as if in… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“It is often said of people with second sight that their soul leaves the body. That doesn't happen to the glacier. But… — Halldór Laxness Glacier Copy Share Image
“Pastor Jón: The Úa who came is not the one who went away. Because in the first place Úa cannot go away,… — Halldór Laxness First place Copy Share Image
“Pastor Jón: God has the virtue that one can locate Him anywhere at all, in anything at all. Embi: In a nail,… — Halldór Laxness Winter Storm Copy Share Image
