This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
Bjartur declared that he had never denied that there was much that was strange in nature. "I consider that there's nothing wrong… — Halldór Laxness 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 Copy Share Image
“Quite so. On the other hand, I am like that horse that was dumbfounded for twenty-four hours. For a long time I… — Halldor Laxness Copy Share Image
No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art. — Halldór Laxness 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“On the other hand I won't conceal the fact from anyone that once upon a time a little something happened to me.… — Halldor Laxness Copy Share Image
Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“A new generation forgets the specters that may have tormented the old… And yet, always, to all eternity, it is the same specter assailing… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent” — Halldór 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 and get… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“Somewhere, out in the infinite distance, lay the spring, at least in God's mind, like babies that are not yet conceived in the mother's… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“Townsfolk have no conception of the peace that mother nature bestows, and as long as that peace is unfound the spirit must seek to… — 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 the spring… — Halldor Laxness Copy Share Image
“Man is more perfect than god. Although this woman's doctrine, in which she was brought up from childhood, told her than all men were… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“Pastor Jón Prímus: Do you remember when Úa shook her curls? Do you remember when she looked at us and laughed? Did she not… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
