Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The majority never has right on its side.
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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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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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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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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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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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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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 greatest victory is defeat.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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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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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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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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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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 younger generation will come knocking at my door.