Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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 have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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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 greatest victory is defeat.
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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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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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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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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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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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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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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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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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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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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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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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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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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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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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.