Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsenwas a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, The Master Builder and John Gabriel Borkman. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth20 March 1828
CitySkien, Norway
CountryNorway
The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.
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.
To live is to war with trolls.
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.
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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.
When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.