Henrik Ibsen Quotes

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

The devil is compromise.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

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.