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My motto is strong packaging, clear addressing.
— Halldor Laxness
There is no more terrifying experience for a Christian than to discover he has suddenly become a rationalist.
— Halldor Laxness
Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.
— Halldor Laxness
For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.
— Halldor Laxness
But perhaps no distance is greater than that which separates a poor family in the same country
— Halldor Laxness
Quite apart from how debased Nature becomes in a picture, nothing seems to me to express so much contempt for Nature as a painting of Nature.
— Halldor Laxness
Two human beings have such difficulty in understanding each other - there is nothing so sad as two human beings.
— Halldor Laxness
Some things in literature are inexplicable.
— Halldor Laxness
What you have stolen can never be yours.
— Halldor Laxness
I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
— Halldor Laxness
Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.
— Halldor Laxness
The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.
— Halldor Laxness
A fat servant is not much of a man. A beaten servant is a great man, because in his breast freedom has its home.
— Halldor Laxness
No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.
— Halldor Laxness
History is always entirely different to what has happened.
— Halldor Laxness
Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better.
— Halldor Laxness
It is both more difficult and more complicated to die than people think.
— Halldor Laxness
When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.
— Halldor Laxness
A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat
— Halldor Laxness
Nothing is true that cannot be provenand therefore, it's not true. — Halldor Laxness
So I see no reason why, just because a couple of womenfolk have kicked the bucket, people should start writing religion about them.
— Halldor Laxness
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
— Halldor Laxness
If you get into danger, either you perish or you escape.
— Halldor Laxness
A land even more remote, America, which is farther than death.
— Halldor Laxness
The light of the world had more or less taken leave of this man, for he was almost blind.(from 'The Fish can Sing') — Halldor Laxness
You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man-break the fetters!
— Halldor Laxness
Those who deck themselves out in stolen gods are not viable.
— Halldor Laxness
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
— Halldor Laxness
People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent
— Halldor Laxness
Well, well, it's enough to make the lice drop dead from my head! Condescend to enter the house.
— Halldor Laxness
Anyone who doesn't know others doesn't know himself.
— Halldor Laxness
I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
— Halldor Laxness
That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it.
— Halldor Laxness
A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.
— Halldor Laxness
Can't you hear how everyone tells lies; if not deliberately, then involuntarily; if not out loud, then silently?
— Halldor Laxness
