Quotes by Henrik Ibsen

“Oh, life would be all right if we didnt have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals”

“In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.”

“Deprive the average human being of his life-lie, and you rob him of his happiness”

“It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.”

“Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.”

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”

“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”

“Sleep, O sleep, my dearest boy. / I will cradle you, I will guard you.”

“The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society”

“People who dont know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.”

“In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! Thats a thought Ill never endure! Never.”

“The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - He first individualizes”

“Some day, youth will come here and thunder on my door, and force its way in to me.”

“Always do that, wild duck. Stick at the bottom. Deep as they can get. . . . And so they never come up again.”

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.

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

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

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.