Quote

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr he must first Will his own execution.

Henrik Ibsen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
Artist
Author
Director
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Henrik Johan Ibsen
Henrich Johan Ibsen
Henrich Ibsen
Must
Cross
Crosses
Create
Dies
Upon
Doe
Martyr
Firsts
Agony
First
Execution

More quotes by Henrik Ibsen

Image
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
Henrik Ibsen
Image
The devil is compromise.
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
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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
Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately but right it has not.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
Helmer: Before all else you are a wife and a mother. Nora: That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
The greatest victory is defeat.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
Henrik Ibsen
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
HELMER But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
Henrik Ibsen