Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
HENRIK IBSENHappiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
HENRIK IBSENThe spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
HENRIK IBSENThere can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
HENRIK IBSENI’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 IBSENIt is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
HENRIK IBSENThe strongest men are the most alone.
HENRIK IBSENAn unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
HENRIK IBSENDifferent 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 IBSENTo live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
HENRIK IBSENTo live is to war with trolls.
HENRIK IBSENWhen we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
HENRIK IBSENNobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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 IBSENA community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
HENRIK IBSENIn the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
HENRIK IBSENThere is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
HENRIK IBSEN