Henrik Ibsen Quotes
-
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea.... We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
-
To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind.
-
Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
-
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
-
I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
-
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority.
-
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.
-
Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
-
The majority never has right on its side.
-
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
-
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
-
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
-
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
-
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
-
A forest bird never wants a cage.
-
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
-
It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.
-
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.
-
To live is to war with trolls.
-
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
-
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
-
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
-
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
-
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.