Saturday, November 23, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Halldor Laxness

« All quotes from this author
 

Anyone who doesn't know others doesn't know himself.

 
Halldor Laxness

» Halldor Laxness - all quotes »



Tags: Halldor Laxness Quotes, Authors starting by L


Similar quotes

 

I am actually pro-cursing. I think it's good. I think we should teach kids to curse, so they don't use drugs. It doesn't rot your brain. It doesn't get you pregnant. It doesn't kill you, like tobacco.

 
Paul Begala
 

A writer who does not write is nothing. One may as well be a fisherman who doesn't fish, a stripper who doesn't strip, or a beggar who doesn't beg.

 
Caitlin R. Kiernan
 

After midlife, one falls back on C G Jung and determines that the first years of life were in themselves symbolic.
To learn a profession (calling) doesn't mean that you are called. To obtain money doesn't mean that you are rich. To marry doesn't mean that you have learned to love. To build a house doesn't mean that you are at home.
All the things you did until you turned forty confront you again after midlife as a task, but this time inwardly.

 
Eugen Drewermann
 

Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn’t comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

 
Marguerite Duras
 

Punk: "The WWE Championship, in its physical form, was stolen from me and is currently held by someone who doesn't deserve it. Someone who doesn't pay the price. Someone who doesn't understand what it means . . . to be champion."

 
Phil Brooks
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact