A forest bird never wants a cage.
HENRIK IBSENA forest bird never wants a cage.
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 IBSENYou don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
HENRIK IBSENOh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
HENRIK IBSENThe great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
HENRIK IBSENRob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
HENRIK IBSENThat is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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 IBSENDifferent people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
HENRIK IBSENTo see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
HENRIK IBSENThe strong must learn to be lonely.
HENRIK IBSENI believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
HENRIK IBSENEverything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
HENRIK IBSENI propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
HENRIK IBSENThe majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
HENRIK IBSENHappiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
HENRIK IBSEN