Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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 man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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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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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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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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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?
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It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.