A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
HENRIK IBSENThe great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
-
-
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
HENRIK IBSEN -
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
HENRIK IBSEN -
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
HENRIK IBSEN -
A forest bird never wants a cage.
HENRIK IBSEN -
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
HENRIK IBSEN -
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.
HENRIK IBSEN -
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
HENRIK IBSEN -
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
HENRIK IBSEN -
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.
HENRIK IBSEN -
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
HENRIK IBSEN -
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.
HENRIK IBSEN -
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
HENRIK IBSEN -
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
HENRIK IBSEN -
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
HENRIK IBSEN -
To live is to war with trolls.
HENRIK IBSEN -
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
HENRIK IBSEN -
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
HENRIK IBSEN -
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
HENRIK IBSEN -
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
HENRIK IBSEN -
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
HENRIK IBSEN -
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
HENRIK IBSEN -
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
HENRIK IBSEN -
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
HENRIK IBSEN -
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.
HENRIK IBSEN -
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!
HENRIK IBSEN -
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
HENRIK IBSEN