Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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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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One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
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Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."
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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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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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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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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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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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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 most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.