Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
HENRIK IBSENAlmost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
HENRIK IBSENThe devil is compromise.
HENRIK IBSENWhenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
HENRIK IBSENOh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
HENRIK IBSENIn great memories there lies the seed of growth.
HENRIK IBSENFriends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
HENRIK IBSENWhether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
HENRIK IBSENI have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
HENRIK IBSENIt is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
HENRIK IBSENThis is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
HENRIK IBSENThere is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
HENRIK IBSENI am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
HENRIK IBSENA thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
HENRIK IBSENThe strongest men are the most alone.
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 IBSENThe spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
HENRIK IBSEN