X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Henrik Ibsen Inspirational Quotes (90)

Page 3 of 4
Filter & Style
Image
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.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
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.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
Henrik Ibsen
Image
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides they are not keeping anything back there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
Henrik Ibsen
Image
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
It is no use lying to one's self.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.
Henrik Ibsen
Previous
Next