The Master Builder Quotes

“Haven't you ever noticed, Hilde, how seductive, how inviting . . . the impossible is?”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Master Builder

“A talent for building children's souls, Hilde. So building their souls that they might grow straight and fine, nobly and beautifully formed, to their full human stature. That was where Aline's talent lay.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Master Builder

“It is the small losses in life that cut one to the heart.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Master Builder

“But he got right to the top. And I heard harps in the air. My - my master builder!”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Master Builder

“No, it is the small losses in life that cut one to the heart—the loss of all that other people look upon as almost nothing.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Master Builder

“That all this I have to make up for, to pay for—not in money, but in human happiness. And not with my own happiness only, but with other people's too.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Master Builder

“Then I saw plainly why he had taken my little children from me. It was that I should have nothing else to attach myself to.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Master Builder

“There's no need to worry about you. You have your duty towards her. Live for that duty.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Master Builder