Occupation: Writer Birth: April 23, 1902 Death: February 8, 1998
Bjartur declared that he had never denied that there was much that was strange in nature. "I consider that there's nothing wrong in believing in elve….
It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything..
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity..
Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It is certain that people….
Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology..
A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father..
What you have stolen can never be yours..
A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat.
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. Spoke….
This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he saw. But what was of….
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. ….
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, fallin….
My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing el….
One boy's footprints are not long in being lost in the snow, in the steadily falling snow of the shortest day, the longest night; they are lost as so….
He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that might pursue h….
It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading..
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 an….
No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art..
You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!.
Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth..
For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him..