black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

NORA: 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 Ibsen

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
HENRIK IBSEN

Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
HENRIK IBSEN

Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
HENRIK IBSEN

Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
HENRIK IBSEN

Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
HENRIK IBSEN

Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
The strong must learn to be lonely.
HENRIK IBSEN

Learning Lonely Strong
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
HENRIK IBSEN

Feature Hold Man Right
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
HENRIK IBSEN

Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
HENRIK IBSEN

Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
HENRIK IBSEN

Sold Time Value Yourself
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
HENRIK IBSEN

Majority Myself Revolution
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
HENRIK IBSEN

Close Live Myself Relate Writing
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
HENRIK IBSEN

Happiness Himself Life Man
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
HENRIK IBSEN

Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
NORA: 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 IBSEN

Known Myself Stand World
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
HENRIK IBSEN

Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom

NORA: 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

NORA: 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henrik Ibsen Quotes