To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
HENRIK IBSENTo live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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 IBSENNothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
HENRIK IBSENA marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
HENRIK IBSENI am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
HENRIK IBSENThe strong must learn to be lonely.
HENRIK IBSENThe man-at-arms is the only man.
HENRIK IBSENThis is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
HENRIK IBSENMarriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
HENRIK IBSENEverything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
HENRIK IBSENA community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
HENRIK IBSENA woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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 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 IBSENOh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
HENRIK IBSENTo die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
HENRIK IBSEN