Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
HENRIK IBSENWhen we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
-
-
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
HENRIK IBSEN -
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
HENRIK IBSEN -
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
HENRIK IBSEN -
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
HENRIK IBSEN -
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
HENRIK IBSEN -
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
HENRIK IBSEN -
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
HENRIK IBSEN -
Most 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 IBSEN -
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
HENRIK IBSEN -
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
HENRIK IBSEN -
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
HENRIK IBSEN -
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
HENRIK IBSEN -
The devil is compromise.
HENRIK IBSEN -
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
HENRIK IBSEN -
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
HENRIK IBSEN -
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
HENRIK IBSEN -
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
HENRIK IBSEN -
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
HENRIK IBSEN -
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
HENRIK IBSEN -
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
HENRIK IBSEN -
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
HENRIK IBSEN -
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
HENRIK IBSEN -
Money 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 IBSEN -
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
HENRIK IBSEN -
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
HENRIK IBSEN -
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
HENRIK IBSEN