Occupation: Writer Birth: April 23, 1902 Death: February 8, 1998
My motto is strong packaging, clear addressing..
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 theref….
Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth..
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….
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity..
What you have stolen can never be yours..
It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything..
You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!.
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….
A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat.
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….
No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art..
Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology..
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….
A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father..
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. ….
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….
For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him..
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….
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….
It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading..