Quotes by Henrik Ibsen

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

People so easily forget their past selves.

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

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.

The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you dont have any power?

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 it, because he would not have liked people with opinions of their own. He used to call me his little doll, and play with me, as I in my turn used to play with my dolls. Then I came to live in your house.

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 papas doll-child. And my children were, in their turn, my dolls. I was exceedingly delighted when you played with me, just as children were whenever I played with them. That has been our marriage, Torvald.

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 me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls.

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

I dont imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

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 youll hear him spouting about the child too early torn from her fathers heart; then youll see him steep himself in a syrup of sentiment and self-admiration and self-pity. Just you wait!

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by ones self?

You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, I have it, merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves.Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.

Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves. Nora: But hundreds of thousands of women have done!

The strongest men are the most alone.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.