black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

Henrik Ibsen

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
HENRIK IBSEN

Minority Rare Right Wrong
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
HENRIK IBSEN

Finance Follow Rest Sports
It’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

Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
HENRIK IBSEN

Freedom Health Myself Writing
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
HENRIK IBSEN

Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
HENRIK IBSEN

Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
HENRIK IBSEN

Heart Small Soul Surround
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
HENRIK IBSEN

Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War 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
The devil is compromise.
HENRIK IBSEN

Compromise Devil One Liner
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
HENRIK IBSEN

Fall Religion State
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
HENRIK IBSEN

Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
HENRIK IBSEN

Experience Life
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
HENRIK IBSEN

Love People Yourself
The strong must learn to be lonely.
HENRIK IBSEN

Learning Lonely Strong
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
HENRIK IBSEN

Lying Myself Writing

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henrik Ibsen Quotes