Henrik Ibsen Quotes

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

Yes you may depend upon it he has the ability! He is the younger generation that stands ready to kn...

And what if I did run my ship aground oh still it was splendid to sail it!

Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

A minority may be right a majority is always wrong.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely ove...

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

The strongest men are the most alone.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves bur...

A minority may be right and a majority is always wrong.

The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

We will talk of this again, when the grass has first withered on her grave. Then you'll hear him spo...

Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility ...

While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior — don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent ...

Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they ofiron or of gold.

I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are--or, at all events, th...

She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go ab...

People so easily forget their past selves.

It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of ...

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don't have any power?

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no ...

Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for.

NORA: Yes; it is just so, Torvald. While I was still at home with father, he used to tell me all his...

NORA: No; only merry. And you were always so friendly and kind to me. But our house has been nothing...

You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I...

When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinion...

I am afraid, Torvald, I do not exactly know what religion is. ... When I am away from all this, and ...

Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no...

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

To seek one's goals and to drive toward it steeling one's heart is most uplifting!

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding....

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you alo...

To live is to war with trolls.

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our f...

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nat...

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals let them make their experiments on journalists a...

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.