To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
HENRIK IBSENTo live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
HENRIK IBSENA party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
HENRIK IBSENNORA: 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 IBSENI don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
HENRIK IBSENOh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
HENRIK IBSENThe man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
HENRIK IBSENAlmost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
HENRIK IBSENOh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
HENRIK IBSENI propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
HENRIK IBSENMoney 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 IBSENHappiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
HENRIK IBSENWhat ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
HENRIK IBSENThe great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
HENRIK IBSENIt’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 IBSENIt is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
HENRIK IBSENWhether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
HENRIK IBSEN