Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.
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There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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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.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.
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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.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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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.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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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.