Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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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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Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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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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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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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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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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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 most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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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Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.