Do you know that these mountains you're looking at don't really exist at all? Or can't you see that they belong more to the sky than the earth? All t… - Halldór Laxness

If you’re fond of someone, you don’t care even if he doesn’t live in a palace and even if all the banks where he has deposits and all the worldcities where he is famous don’t exist.

The God of the Jews was an absolute God, who believed in other gods himself, to be sure, but forbade me to obey them, contrary to our own beliefs in the North. We have many gods and obey them all, and they us, the god of the sea and the god of the land, the god of thunder and the god of poetry.

He who weeps does not die; weeping is a sign of life; weep, and your life is worth something again.