Henrik Ibsen Quotes

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

Always do that, wild ducks do. They shoot to the bottom as deep as they can get, sir — and bite themselves fast in the tangle and seaweed — and all the devil's own mess that grows down there. And they never come up again.

I have already told you that what I want to speak about is the great discovery I have made lately - the discovery that all the sources of our moral life are poisoned and that the whole fabric of our civic community is founded on the pestiferous soil of falsehood.

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

No, I don't think one ought to be at everybody's beck and call. Anyway, I'm not going to be.

first condition of a happy marriage is the absence of love, and the first condition of an enduring love is the absence of marriage.

Men, gud sig forbarme,—sligt noget gír man da ikke!

The forests avenge themselves.

I'm also like a half-drowned woman on a wreck. No one to suffer with; no one to care for.

A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.

There are people one loves and others one likes to talk to

There is a big black hat and it makes you invisible. Have you heard of that hat? You put it on and then no one can see you.

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.

Oh yes, right — right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

Erring soul of man — if thou wast indeed forced to err, it shall surely be accounted to thee for good on that great day when the Mighty One shall descend in the clouds to judge the living dead and the dead who are yet alive!