black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Henrik Ibsen

NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
HENRIK IBSEN

Known Myself Stand World
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
HENRIK IBSEN

Act Courage Known Possible Release
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
HENRIK IBSEN

Experience Time Willing Yourself
A forest bird never wants a cage.
HENRIK IBSEN

Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
HENRIK IBSEN

Extreme Mute Opinion Public
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
HENRIK IBSEN

Action Leave Word
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
HENRIK IBSEN

Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
HENRIK IBSEN

Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
HENRIK IBSEN

Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
HENRIK IBSEN

Freedom Health Myself Writing
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
HENRIK IBSEN

God Individual Life Man Struggle
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
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

Friendship Lying Oneself
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
HENRIK IBSEN

Head Machine Togetherness
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?
HENRIK IBSEN

Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
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

Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henrik Ibsen Quotes