“Dr. Syngmann: But someone must have made it all. Don't you think so, John? Pastor Jón: Thou shalt love the Lord thy… — Halldór Laxness Love Copy Share Image
“Dr. Syngmann: I am talking about the only quality that was worth creating the world for, the only power that is worth… — Halldór Laxness Long time 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
“They were allowed a little touch at each of the books, but only with their fingertips tonight, literature cannot bear dirty hands;… — Halldór Laxness Books 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 History 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
“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
“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
“...freedom is of more account than the height of a roof beam. I ought to know; mine cost me eighteen years' slavery.… — Halldór Laxness Debt Copy Share Image
“a land even more remote, America, which is farther than death.” — Halldór Laxness Death Copy Share Image
“On olemassa kasvoja, joilla on valtaa ihmisen ylitse siihen saakka, kun hän jonakin kauniina päivänä loppuu.” — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters! — Halldór Laxness Break 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
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity. — Halldór Laxness Facts 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
“the aforesaid disagreement between these men sprang from a misunderstanding. And the cause of it is that each thinks he is better… — Halldór Laxness Countries 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 First time Copy Share Image
“For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more completely unintelligible… — Halldór Laxness Compassion Copy Share Image
It's a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the… — Halldór Laxness Believe 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
“Often I felt that these men were play-acting: the unreality of their role was their security, even their own destinies were to… — 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
“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 Time 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 Crying Copy Share Image
