Henrik Ibsen Quotes

Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

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

And what if I did run my ship aground oh still it was splendid to sail it!

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.