Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.” — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses,… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
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… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
“To be oneself on a basis of gold is no better than founding one’s house on the sand. For your watch, and your ring,… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
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… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that.… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
“Nora: It's true Torvald. When I lived at home with Papa, he used to tell me his opinion about everything, and so I had… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
“A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.” — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
“You see, the fact is that the strongest man upon earth is he who stands most alone.” — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
