Henrik Ibsen Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
Oh, 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.
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.
A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule seventeen or eighteen, or at most twenty years - seldom longer.
Helmer: "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."
Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love.
Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?
She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men's boots in bad weather
I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
The 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.
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior - don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
To "those about to marry," Ibsen therefore says in effect, "Be sure you are not in love!" And to those who are in love he says, "Part!
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
About the white and shining milky way? Man may not there the milk of fortune skim, Nor is the butter of it meant for him.
You have made an empty place within me; and I must try to fill it up with something - with something that is a little like love.
Dr. Stockmann: Yes, I can afford it now. Katherine tells me I earn almost as much as we spend.
Peter Stockmann: Almost - yes!
Peter Stockmann: Almost - yes!
When I lost you, it was as if all the solid ground dissolved from under my feet. Look at me; I'm a half-drowned man now, hanging onto a wreck.
SIGURD. Man's will can do this and that; but fate rules in the deeds that shape our lives - so has it gone with us twain.
Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.