Quote by Halldór Laxness

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

“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

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

— Halldór Laxness

“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

“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

“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

“Sin - sin is God’s most precious gift.”

— Halldór Laxness

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

— Halldór Laxness

“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

“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

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

— Halldór Laxness

“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