black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
HENRIK IBSEN

Alone Man Strong
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
HENRIK IBSEN

Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
HENRIK IBSEN

Awakening Dead Live
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
HENRIK IBSEN

Business Goodness Poet Starve
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
HENRIK IBSEN

Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
HENRIK IBSEN

Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
HENRIK IBSEN

Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
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

Human Myself Responsibility Role
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
HENRIK IBSEN

Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
HENRIK IBSEN

Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
HENRIK IBSEN

Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
HENRIK IBSEN

Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
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

Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
HENRIK IBSEN

General Nature Possession Power Sea
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
HENRIK IBSEN

Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
HENRIK IBSEN

Greatness Growth Memories

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henrik Ibsen Quotes