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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
— Henrik Ibsen
Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
— Henrik Ibsen
the strongest man is he who stands most alone
— Henrik Ibsen
Oh, yesyou
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
What good would that ever do me if you were gone from this world, as you say? Not the slightest.
— Henrik Ibsen
He is suffering from an acute attack of integrity.
— Henrik Ibsen
People so easily forget their past selves.
— Henrik Ibsen
What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
— Henrik Ibsen
One's life is a heavy price to pay for being born.
— Henrik Ibsen
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
— Henrik Ibsen
It is no use lying to one's self.
— Henrik Ibsen
The strong must learn to be lonely.
— Henrik Ibsen
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
— Henrik Ibsen
Ibsen: "Education is the capacity to confront the situations posed by life.
— Jon Lee Anderson
A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
— Henrik Ibsen
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
— Henrik Ibsen
Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?
— Henrik Ibsen
MAIA. - all the glory of the world? Yes, you did. And all that glory should be mine, you said.
— Henrik Ibsen
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
— Henrik Ibsen
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
— Henrik Ibsen
One bird's an eagle born - FALK. And one a hen.
— Henrik Ibsen
She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men's boots in bad weather
— Henrik Ibsen
Oh yes, right - right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
— Henrik Ibsen
World-comedy of Love's contriving - naive fools of fancy, passionately weaving the cords that are to strangle passion.
— Henrik Ibsen
I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.
— Andre Holland
Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for.
— Henrik Ibsen
Think. I dragged myself along among the precipices - and revelled in the peace and luxury of death.
— Henrik Ibsen
Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
— Henrik Ibsen
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
— Henrik Ibsen
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
Werle: "I believe there is no one in the world you detest as you do me."Gregers: "I have seen you at too close quarters. — Henrik Ibsen
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
— Henrik Ibsen
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
— Henrik Ibsen
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
— Henrik Ibsen
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
I relate to Nora's transformation in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' and I also relate to both sisters' journeys in John Madden's film 'Proof.'
— Autumn Reeser
A Doll's House is about money, about the way it turns locks.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
SIGURD. Man's will can do this and that; but fate rules in the deeds that shape our lives - so has it gone with us twain.
— Henrik Ibsen
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
— Henrik Ibsen
When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.
— Annette Bening
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
I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.
— Ving Rhames
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
— Henrik Ibsen
I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
— Henrik Ibsen
To live is to war with trolls.
— Henrik Ibsen
It's a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
— Henrik Ibsen
No, I don't think one ought to be at everybody's beck and call. Anyway, I'm not going to be.
— Henrik Ibsen
You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
— Henrik Ibsen
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
— Henrik Ibsen
Oh courage ... oh yes! If only one had that ... Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
— Henrik Ibsen
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
— Henrik Ibsen
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
— Henrik Ibsen
You have made an empty place within me; and I must try to fill it up with something - with something that is a little like love.
— Henrik Ibsen
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
— Henrik Ibsen
A forest bird never wants a cage.
— Henrik Ibsen
[From below comes the noise of a door slamming.]
— Henrik Ibsen
The man-at-arms is the only man.
— Henrik Ibsen
I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
— Henrik Ibsen
