Henrik Ibsen quotes - page 3

To think it, wish it, even want it - but do it! No, that I cannot understand. (Henrik Ibsen)
I have already told you that what I want to speak about is the great discovery I have made lately - the discovery that all the sources of our moral life are poisoned and that the whole fabric of our civic community is founded on the pestiferous soil of falsehood. View quote
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Rank. Certainly. However wretched I may feel, I want to prolong the agony as long as possible. View quote
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Mrs. Elvsted: You have some hidden motive in this, Hedda! Hedda: Yes, I have. I want for once in my life to have power to mold a human destiny. Mrs. Elvsted: Have you not the power? Hedda: I have not-and never had it. Mrs. Elvsted: Not your husband's? Hedda: Do you think it's worth the trouble? Oh, if only you could understand how poor I am. And fate has made you so rich! View quote
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If you take the life lie from an average man, you take away his happiness as well. View quote
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There are three Empires. First there is the Empire which was founded on the tree of knowledge. Then there is the Empire founded on the tree of the Cross. The third is still a secret Empire which will be founded on the tree of knowledge and the tree of the Cross - brought together. View quote
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The common people are nothing more than the raw material of which a People is made. View quote
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The black, cold, icy water. Down and down, without end - if it would only end. View quote
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Yes, Love shall win! View quote
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Peer, you are lying! View quote
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Our common lust for life. (Henrik Ibsen)
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time. View quote
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To live is to battle the demons in the heart as well as the brain. To write is to preside at judgement day over one's self. View quote
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Tho' Doubt's beleaguering forces hem us in, Yet Truth upon the Serpent's head shall trample. The cause of Love shall win -. View quote
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Brand: Answer me, God, in the jaws of death: Is there no salvation for the Will of Man? No small measure of salvation? [The avalanche buries him. The valley is swallowed up.] A Voice: [Calls through the crashing thunder] He is the God of Love. View quote
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The most dangerous force to truth and freedom in our midst is the compact majority. View quote
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man. View quote
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If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone. View quote
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But our home's been nothing but a playpen. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa's doll-child. View quote
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I've the most extraordinary longing to say 'Bloody Hell! View quote
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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintance, but not friends servants, but not loyalty days of joy, but not peace or happiness. (Henrik Ibsen)
To live is to war with trolls. View quote
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The greatest victory is defeat. View quote
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with. View quote
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer. View quote
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