There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
HENRIK IBSENThere is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
HENRIK IBSENThis is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
HENRIK IBSENEach bird must sing with his own throat.
HENRIK IBSENHappiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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 IBSENA woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
HENRIK IBSENHome life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
HENRIK IBSENI’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
HENRIK IBSENBut a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
HENRIK IBSENFriends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
HENRIK IBSENPublic opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
HENRIK IBSENI hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
HENRIK IBSENThe worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
HENRIK IBSENIf you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
HENRIK IBSENMarriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
HENRIK IBSENWhen you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
HENRIK IBSEN