Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.

No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.

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 him. As a child he had stood by the seashore at Ljósavík and watched the waves soughing in and out, but now he was heading away from the sea. "Think of me when you are in glorious sunshine." Soon the sun of the day of resurrection will shine on the bright paths where she awaits her poet. And beauty shall reign alone.

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 more value, he felt and suffered with her. In years that were yet to come, he relived this memory in song, in the most beautiful song this world has known. For the understanding of the soul's defencelessness, of the conflict between the two poles, is not the source of the greatest song. The source of the greatest song is sympathy.

A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.