Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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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One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind.
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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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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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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 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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The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.
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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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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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To live is to war with trolls.