Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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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 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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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 worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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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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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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 strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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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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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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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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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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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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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.