People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
HENRIK IBSENPeople who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
HENRIK IBSENThe great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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 IBSENTake the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
HENRIK IBSENThere is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
HENRIK IBSENIt’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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 IBSENIt’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
HENRIK IBSENNORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
HENRIK IBSENHome life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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 IBSENHappiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
HENRIK IBSENReally to sin you have to be serious about it.
HENRIK IBSENWhat is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
HENRIK IBSENHelmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
HENRIK IBSEN