Quote

Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

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
Life
Livable
Spite
Courage
Might
Everything

More quotes by Henrik Ibsen

Image
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
The majority never has right on its side.
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
I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
Henrik Ibsen
Image
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
Henrik Ibsen
Image
The strong must learn to be lonely.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr he must first Will his own execution.
Henrik Ibsen
Image
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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