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
Crosses
Create
Dies
Upon
Doe
Martyr
Firsts
Agony
First
Execution
Must
Cross

More quotes by Henrik Ibsen

Image
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
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
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?
Henrik Ibsen
Image
It is no use lying to one's self.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
Henrik Ibsen
Image
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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
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
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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
Image
It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
Henrik Ibsen