Quotes by Henrik Ibsen

“It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life”

“You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.”

“To live is to war with trolls.”

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

“People so easily forget their past selves.”

“I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.”

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

“NORA: Yes; it is just so, Torvald. While I was still at home with father, he used to tell me all his views, and so of course I held the same views; if at any time I had a different view I concealed...”

“NORA: No; only merry. And you were always so friendly and kind to me. But our house has been nothing but a nursery. Here I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I used to be papa's doll-child. ...”

“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.”

“When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions; and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it. He called...”

“She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in mens boots in bad weather”

“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 right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don't have any power?”

“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 ...”

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”

“I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are--or, at all events, that I must try and become one.”

“Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?”

“We will talk of this again, when the grass has first withered on her grave. Then you'll hear him spouting about "the child too early torn from her father's heart;" then you'll see him steep himself...”

“What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?”