Henrik Ibsen Quotes

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior — don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

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.

You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

NORA: Yes; it is just so, Torvald. While I was still at home with father, he used to tell me all his views, and so of course I held the same views; if at any time I had a different view I concealed it, because he would not have liked people with opinions of their own. He used to call me his little doll, and play with me, as I in my turn used to play with my dolls. Then I came to live in your house.

I am afraid, Torvald, I do not exactly know what religion is. ... When I am away from all this, and am alone, I will look into that matter too. I will see if what the clergyman said is true, or at all events if it is true for me.