Quote

Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

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
Steel
Height
Commitment
Follow
Call
Clear
Radiance
Glow
Heights

More quotes by Henrik Ibsen

Image
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
A forest bird never wants a cage.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
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 starving poet business is no good nowadays.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
Henrik Ibsen
Image
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
And what if I did run my ship aground oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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
The strongest men are the most alone.
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
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
Henrik Ibsen