12 quotes
It makes no difference where one sleeps in God's City of Zion, the air is everywhere just as all-embracingly pleasing.
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
Anyone who doesn't know others doesn't know himself.
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
Good news travels slowly but arrives in the end, thank goodness. Bad news always arrives a day too soon.
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
Since when has America with all its hordes of gangsters and beggars become God's Kingdom?
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
How wonderful it can be, and what nobility it proves in young men, when they pledge one another a friendship that can never be shadowed by selfishness, envy, or jealousy.
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
In the end one is no longer sure which is the greatest evildoer, the man who gets up early or the man who goes to bed late.
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
Three things, according to poets, are considered bliss in Iceland: hot rye-cakes, plump girls, and cold buttermilk.
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
The people with whom I grew up in the Vestmannaeyjar carried heaven within themselves; even if it was sixty fathoms at the end of a rope down a cliff, fowling, they were at home in God's City of Zion.
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
A good pony can occur on a farm once in a generation, with luck; but on some farms, never in a thousand years. From the sea, beyond the sands and marshes, for a thousand years, the murmur was always the same.
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
The faithful say that with such a mouth did God speak to the Church Fathers. The acoustics are so remarkable that if the name of the Lord is whispered at the altar it can be heard as a shout at the door.
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
Mine is a bad doctrine. And, what's more, I cannot substantiate my doctrine. The man who has the best doctrine is the one who can prove that he has the most to eat; and good shoes. I have neither, and live in a dugout.
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
A topic that sometimes succeeds in being fully resolved with the help of long explanations in speech or writing, with arguments and letter, but more often fails the harder it is pursued, can be resolved by dumbness in a single hour.
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)