Halldór Laxness Quotes
1902–1998 Iceland
Halldór Kiljan Laxness (23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998), born Halldór Guðjónsson, was a 20th century Icelandic author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955.
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126 quotes
When's there ever been a decent saint who didn't start out as a thief?
It's both ludicrous and embarrassing to recall one's youth.
A man's conscience is an unsteady judge of right and wrong.
Anyone who doesn't know others doesn't know himself.
The fire's hottest for the one who burns himself.
You should deny facts if they're inconvenient.
Misdeeds that are repented no longer exist.
Learn never to look forward to anything. It is the beginning of knowing how to endure everything.
The Icelanders never got anything in exchange from the Danes except hunger.
To explain God would be to have no God, my little one.
Human beings are constantly inventing new ways of maltreating one other. C'est la vie.
It's an honor to be beheaded. Even a little churl becomes a man by being beheaded.
Since when has America with all its hordes of gangsters and beggars become God's Kingdom?
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Halldór Laxness (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.