When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
HENRIK IBSENWhen you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
HENRIK IBSENThe devil is compromise.
HENRIK IBSENTo crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
HENRIK IBSENDon’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
HENRIK IBSENThe strong must learn to be lonely.
HENRIK IBSENBut a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
HENRIK IBSENDo you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
HENRIK IBSENHappiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
HENRIK IBSENThe 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 IBSENI’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 IBSENThe man-at-arms is the only man.
HENRIK IBSENMany a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
HENRIK IBSENThe starving poet business is no good nowadays.
HENRIK IBSENMarriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
HENRIK IBSENLabor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
HENRIK IBSENEach bird must sing with his own throat.
HENRIK IBSEN