black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.

Henrik Ibsen

To live is to war with trolls.
HENRIK IBSEN

Live Troll War
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
HENRIK IBSEN

Majority Myself Revolution
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
HENRIK IBSEN

Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
HENRIK IBSEN

Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
HENRIK IBSEN

Minority Rare Right Wrong
I’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 IBSEN

Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
HENRIK IBSEN

Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
HENRIK IBSEN

Head Machine Togetherness
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
HENRIK IBSEN

Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
HENRIK IBSEN

Demand Man Marriage
Whenever 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 IBSEN

Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
HENRIK IBSEN

Freedom Health Myself Writing
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
HENRIK IBSEN

Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
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 IBSEN

Decent Health People Wasted Time
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
HENRIK IBSEN

Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
NORA: 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 IBSEN

Known Myself Stand World

Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henrik Ibsen Quotes