Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.
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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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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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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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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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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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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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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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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 man-at-arms is the only man.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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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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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 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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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
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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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Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.