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
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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."
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.
The strongest men are the most alone.
Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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.
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.
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.
I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.