Top 100 Quotes About Henrik Ibsen
#1. 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
#2. I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."
Joe Manganiello
#3. A man's moral character may be completely sapped; that is the dreadful part of it.
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#4. I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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#5. Oh, yes
you
can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has
might on its side
unfortunately; but right it has not.
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#6. Anyone who's sold herself for somebody else once isn't going to do it again.
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#7. Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
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#8. Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love.
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#9. Oh yes, right - right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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#10. Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it ... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
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#11. [Suddenly letting slip the train of thought.] Do you know, the people down at the hotel think she's mad. PROFESSOR RUBEK. Indeed? And pray what do the people down at the hotel think of you and the bear-killer?
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#12. You possibly believe I keep the glue Of lies for Happiness's in a broken jar?
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#13. Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
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#14. Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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#15. There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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#16. In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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#17. The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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#18. To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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#19. It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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#20. What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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#21. OSWALD: [Repeats, in a dull, toneless voice.] The sun. The sun.
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#22. STRAWMAN. Are you less Intractable than when we parted? FALK. Nay, I go my own inexorable way - STRAWMAN. Even tho' you crush another's happiness? FALK. I plant the flower of knowledge in its place. [Smiling.
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#23. It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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#24. When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
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#25. The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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#26. Let others emulate the eagle's flight, Life in the lowly plains may be as bright.
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#27. There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.
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#28. That is the accursed thing about small surroundings
they make the soul small.
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#29. 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
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#31. Dr. Stockmann. 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 hole fabric of our
civic community is founded on the pestiferous soil of falsehood.
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#32. Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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#33. I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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#34. People so easily forget their past selves.
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#35. I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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#36. The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
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#37. 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.
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#38. The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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#39. These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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#40. 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.
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#41. A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
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#42. Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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#43. World-comedy of Love's contriving - naive fools of fancy, passionately weaving the cords that are to strangle passion.
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#44. Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
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#47. 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.
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#49. Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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#50. Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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#51. Not in that sense. What I need is the companionship of another person who can, as it were, complete me - supply what is wanting in me - be one with me in all my striving. MAIA.
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#52. There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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#53. However wretched I may feel, I want to prolong the agony as long as possible. All my patients are like that. And so are those who are morally diseased..
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#54. Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself
thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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#55. If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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#56. The White God is coming northward; him will I not meet; the old gods are strong no longer; - they sleep, they sit half shadow- high; - with them will we strive!
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#57. It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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#58. Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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#59. first condition of a happy marriage is the absence of love, and the first condition of an enduring love is the absence of marriage.
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#60. KROGSTAD: The law cares nothing about motives.
NORA: Then it must be a very foolish law.
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#61. A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.
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#62. I'm completely alone in the world; it frightens me to be so empty and lost.
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#63. 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!
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#64. (A thrill of dread runs through the whole group; ASGARDSREIEN - the ride of the fallen heroes to Valhal - hurtles through the air.)
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#65. 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.
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#66. OSWALD: For I'm not so afraid of death--though I should like to live as long as I can.
MRS. ALVING: Yes, yes, Oswald, you must!
OSWALD: But this is so unutterably loathsome.
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#67. You see, the fact is that the strongest man upon earth is he who stands most alone.
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#68. It's a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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#69. And though I have sailed my boat hard aground,
O, it was so grand to be sailing!
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#70. So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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#71. If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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#72. I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are
or, at all events, that I must try and become one.
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#73. The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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#75. An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
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#76. Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
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#77. Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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#78. When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions; and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it. He called me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls.
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#79. One's life is a heavy price to pay for being born.
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#80. I thought you understood where I'd lost what you call my heart at the time.
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#81. You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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#82. Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."
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#83. You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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#84. Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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#85. A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule seventeen or eighteen, or at most twenty years - seldom longer.
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#86. Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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#87. If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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#88. I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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#89. A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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#90. Time was when I was young, like you, and played Like you, the unconquerable Titan's part; Year after year I toiled and moiled for bread, Which hardens a man's hand, but not his heart. For northern fells my lonely home surrounded, And by my parish bounds my world was bounded.
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#91. The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
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#92. Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.
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#93. A man who has the inventive genius can't control it exactly as he wishes. Its working depends in great measure on inspiration
on a momentary suggestion
and it is almost impossible to tell beforehand at what moment it will come.
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#94. A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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#95. About the white and shining milky way? Man may not there the milk of fortune skim, Nor is the butter of it meant for him.
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#96. To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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#97. Think. I dragged myself along among the precipices - and revelled in the peace and luxury of death.
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#98. ALLMERS. No. For it is here, in the life of earth, that we living beings are at home.
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#99. There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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