This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
HENRIK IBSENThis is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
HENRIK IBSENWhat ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
HENRIK IBSENWhat’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
HENRIK IBSENBefore I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
HENRIK IBSENA thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
HENRIK IBSENA thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
HENRIK IBSENLook into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
HENRIK IBSENDo you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
HENRIK IBSENOh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
HENRIK IBSENThe strongest men are the most alone.
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 IBSENMarriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
HENRIK IBSENThe costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
HENRIK IBSENEvery man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
HENRIK IBSENHelmer: “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 IBSENIf I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
HENRIK IBSEN