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
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.
The greatest victory is defeat.
Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness
It was love for me - her kind of love - that drove her into the mill-race.
Sleep, O sleep, my dearest boy. / I will cradle you, I will guard you.
Emperor? You old fake! / You're no Emperor. You're just an onion. / Now then, little Peer, I'm going to peel you.
Always do that, wild duck. Stick at the bottom. Deep as they can get. . . . And so they never come up again.
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth
They may soon expect the white horse at Rosmersholm now.
As you can see, I'm a button-moulder. / You must go into my casting ladle.
A woman cannot be herself in modern society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess female conduct from a male standpoint.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Some day, youth will come here and thunder on my door, and force its way in to me.
Deprive the average human being of his life-lie, and you rob him of his happiness