Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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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.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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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 have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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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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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.