Quotes from Henrik Ibsen

It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

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!

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Freedom is never given, it is won.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth

To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.