Henrik Ibsen Quotes

Jeg har en sånn umåtelig lyst til å si: død og pine.

Do think it quite incomprehensible that a young girl — when it can be done — without any one knowing — should be glad to have a peep, now and then, into a world which — which she is forbidden to know anything about?

People want only special revolutions, in externals, in politics, and so on. But that's just tinkering. What is really is called for is a revolution of the human mind.

it was a tremendous pleasure to sit there working and earning money. It was like being a man.

But he got right to the top. And I heard harps in the air. My - my master builder!

But our home's been nothing but a playpen. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa's doll-child. And in turn the children have been my dolls. I thought it fun when you played with me, just as they thought it fun when I played with them. That's been our marriage, Torvald.

If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.

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.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

Ja, tænke det; ønske det; ville det med;
men gjøre det! Nej, det skjønner jeg ikke!

The majority has the might — more's the pity — but it hasn't right. I am right — I and one or two other individuals like me. The minority is always right.

While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior — don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

Back he'll come...With vine leaves in his hair. Flushed and confident.

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