This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
HENRIK IBSENThis is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
HENRIK IBSENYou have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
HENRIK IBSENWhen you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
HENRIK IBSENThe devil is compromise.
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 IBSENIf you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
HENRIK IBSENI’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
HENRIK IBSENEvery man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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 IBSENThere are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
HENRIK IBSENA party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
HENRIK IBSENThe spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
HENRIK IBSENIt’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
HENRIK IBSENNothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
HENRIK IBSENIt’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
HENRIK IBSEN