Rosmersholm Quotes

“I am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen. Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm”
― Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

“Live, work, act. Don’t sit here and brood.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

“I have a taste for solitary enjoyment, because in that way my enjoyment is twice—ten times—as keen. It is, like this. When I have been wrapped in a haze of golden dreams that have descended on me—when new, intoxicating, momentous thoughts have had their birth in my mind, and I have been fanned by the beat of their wings as they bore me aloft—at such moments I have transformed them into poetry, into visions, into pictures.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

“. . . after this I should only be like some sea-sprite . . .”
― Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

“My leaving you will save the best that is in you.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

“I am homesick for the great Nothingness.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

“—a mere matter of the intellect. It has not got into your blood.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

“Dear friend—for your own sake, as well as for mine, do not ask me why.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

“Yes, like that. Rushing at me out of the dark—out of the silence.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

“Your reading has introduced you to a hotch-potch of new ideas and opinions; you have made a certain acquaintance with researches that are going on in various directions— researches that seem to you to upset a good many ideas that people have hitherto considered incontrovertible and unassailable. But all this has never gone any further than knowledge in your case, Miss West— a mere matter of the intellect. It has not got into your blood.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

“certain games are going on behind your back in this house. Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm”
― Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm