I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
HENRIK IBSENI have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
HENRIK IBSENThe greatest victory is defeat.
HENRIK IBSENWhen we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
HENRIK IBSENThe great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
HENRIK IBSENWhat sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
HENRIK IBSENMost 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.
HENRIK IBSENI’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
HENRIK IBSENWriting has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
HENRIK IBSENThe strongest men are the most alone.
HENRIK IBSENMany a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
HENRIK IBSENMoney brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
HENRIK IBSENHappiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
HENRIK IBSENA 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.
HENRIK IBSENThe sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
HENRIK IBSENEverything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
HENRIK IBSENIt is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
HENRIK IBSEN