Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea.... We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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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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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.
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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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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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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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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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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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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority.
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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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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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 man-at-arms is the only man.
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Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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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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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.