black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

Henrik Ibsen

An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
HENRIK IBSEN

Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
HENRIK IBSEN

Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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

Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
HENRIK IBSEN

Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
Different 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 IBSEN

Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
HENRIK IBSEN

Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
A forest bird never wants a cage.
HENRIK IBSEN

Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
The strongest men are the most alone.
HENRIK IBSEN

Alone Man Strong
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
HENRIK IBSEN

Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
HENRIK IBSEN

Experience Time Willing Yourself
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
HENRIK IBSEN

Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
HENRIK IBSEN

Cold Healing Sick Sound
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

Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
The man-at-arms is the only man.
HENRIK IBSEN

Distance Man
If 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 IBSEN

Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
HENRIK IBSEN

Life Yourself

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henrik Ibsen Quotes