Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
HENRIK IBSENMarriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
HENRIK IBSENThe strongest men are the most alone.
HENRIK IBSENIn the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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 IBSENWhen you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
HENRIK IBSENWhat’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
HENRIK IBSENBefore 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 IBSENA forest bird never wants a cage.
HENRIK IBSENI propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
HENRIK IBSENI go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
HENRIK IBSENIf 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 IBSENDon’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
HENRIK IBSENAnd what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
HENRIK IBSENThe great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
HENRIK IBSENOur whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
HENRIK IBSENSo 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