Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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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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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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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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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
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One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.
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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 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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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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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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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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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.