Henrik Ibsen Quotes

A woman cannot be herself in modern society,” he argues, since it is “an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint.

When we dead awaken. … We see that we have never lived.

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

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

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

He last, late guest
To the gate we followed;
Goodbye – and the rest
The night-wind swallowed.

House, garden, street,
Lay tenfold gloomy,
Where accents sweet
Had made music to me.

It was but a feast
With the dark coming on;
She was but a guest –
And now, she is gone.

Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog?

It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.

The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

En skulde aldrig ha’ sine bedste buxer på, når en er ude og strider for frihed og sandhed.

And though I have sailed my boat hard aground,
O, it was so grand to be sailing!

I feel myself like God's lost prodigal; I left Him for the world's delusive charms. With mild reproof He wooed me to his arms; And when I come, He lights the vaulted hall, Prepares a banquet for the son restored, And makes His noblest creature my reward. From this time forth I'll never leave that Light, — But stand its armed defender in the fight; Nothing shall part us, and our life shall prove A song of glory to triumphant love!

The black, cold, icy water. Down and down, without end — if it would only end.

"Out there, where the sky shines, humans say: "To thyself be true". In here, trolls say: "Be true to yourself - ish." - Peer Gynt"

Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of
iron or of gold.

If you take the life lie from an average man, you take away his happiness as well.