Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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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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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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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.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.