Henrik Ibsen Quotes

I'll risk everything together with you.

What sort of truths are they that the majority usually
supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are
beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in
a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

To live is - to war with trolls
In the holds of the heart and mind

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

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

Anyone who's sold herself for somebody else once isn't going to do it again.

Haven't you ever noticed, Hilde, how seductive, how inviting . . . the impossible is?

How can I hold you close enough?

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me light glinting on broken glass.

You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I pretended to. I am really not quite sure which - I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

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.

A talent for building children's souls, Hilde. So building their souls that they might grow straight and fine, nobly and beautifully formed, to their full human stature. That was where Aline's talent lay.

But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.

I am afraid, Torvald, I do not exactly know what religion is. ... When I am away from all this, and am alone, I will look into that matter too. I will see if what the clergyman said is true, or at all events if it is true for me.