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… - Halldór Laxness

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

Jón Hreggviðsson said that he himself never read except when he was forced to do so, though he had learned from his mother all the necessary sagas, ballads, and old genealogies, and he claimed to be descended from Haraldur Hilditönn, the Danish king, on his father's side. He said that he would never forget such excellent ancients as Gunnar of Hlíðarendi, King Pontus, and Örvar-Oddur, who were twelve ells high and could have lived to be three hundred years old if they hadn't run into any trouble, and that if he had such a book he would send it immediately for free to the king and his counts, to prove to them that there had indeed once been real men in Iceland.

In the afterlife, people never forget to feed the dog.