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Top 20 Halldór Laxness Quotes (2025 Update)

Halldór Laxness Quote: “It’s a pity we don’t whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.”

1. “It’s a pity we don’t whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.”

2. “Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “Whoever doesn’t live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.”

3. “Whoever doesn’t live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “What you have stolen can never be yours.”

4. “What you have stolen can never be yours.”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man-break the fetters!”

5. “You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man-break the fetters!”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.”

6. “A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.”

7. “For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “Don’t forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they’re lying or telling the truth.”

8. “Don’t forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they’re lying or telling the truth.”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatred – other men. Man hates nothing as much as himself. That is why war is called the leprosy of the human soul.”

9. “Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatred – other men. Man hates nothing as much as himself. That is why war is called the leprosy of the human soul.”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.”

10. “Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “It’s a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.”

11. “It’s a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.”

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

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “No one is so busy that he hasn’t the time to dismantle a work of art.”

13. “No one is so busy that he hasn’t the time to dismantle a work of art.”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little; and this drip continued, falling obstinately, falling without pause on the souls of the children.”

14. “The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little; and this drip continued, falling obstinately, falling without pause on the souls of the children.”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better.”

15. “Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better.”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “My motto is strong packaging, clear addressing.”

16. “My motto is strong packaging, clear addressing.”

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Halldór Laxness Quote: “And when the spring breezes blow up the valley; when the spring sun shines on last year’s withered grass on the river banks; and on the lake; and on the lake’s two white swans; and coaxes the new grass out of the spongy soil in the marshes – who could believe on such a day that this peaceful, grassy valley brooded over the story of our past; and over its spectres?”

17. “And when the spring breezes blow up the valley; when the spring sun shines on last year’s withered grass on the river banks; and on the lake; and on the lake’s two white swans; and coaxes the new grass out of the spongy soil in the marshes – who could believe on such a day that this peaceful, grassy valley brooded over the story of our past; and over its spectres?”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.”

18. “Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “It’s an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.”

19. “It’s an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “On the other hand I won’t conceal the fact from anyone that once upon a time a little something happened to me. I saw a little something. But never except just that once.”

20. “On the other hand I won’t conceal the fact from anyone that once upon a time a little something happened to me. I saw a little something. But never except just that once.”

— Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness Quote: “But I was also very pleased when I heard the Prince of Montenegro got married the other day. I know perfectly well that I am nothing to anyone. But the middle finger is no longer than the pinkie if one measures both against infinity...”

21. “But I was also very pleased when I heard the Prince of Montenegro got married the other day. I know perfectly well that I am nothing to anyone. But the middle finger is no longer than the pinkie if one measures both against infinity...”

— Halldór Laxness

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