Henrik Ibsen | Minimalist Quotes

I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

Henrik Ibsen

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

Henrik Ibsen

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

Henrik Ibsen

The man-at-arms is the only man.

Henrik Ibsen

The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

Henrik Ibsen

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

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

Henrik Ibsen

The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

Henrik Ibsen

In great memories there lies the seed of growth.

Henrik Ibsen

The greatest victory is defeat.

Henrik Ibsen

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?

Henrik Ibsen

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

Henrik Ibsen

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

Henrik Ibsen

I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Henrik Ibsen

I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quotes