Never do hymns seem so long as in the days of childhood, never is their world and their language so alien to the soul. In old age the opposite is true, the hours are then too short for the hymns.


Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935)

Halldór Laxness Quotes

Never do hymns seem so long as in the days of childhood, never is their world and their language so alien to the soul. In old age the opposite is...

Never do hymns seem so long as in the days of childhood, never is their world and their language so alien to the soul. In old age the opposite is...

Never do hymns seem so long as in the days of childhood, never is their world and their language so alien to the soul. In old age the opposite is...

Never do hymns seem so long as in the days of childhood, never is their world and their language so alien to the soul. In old age the opposite is...