When We Dead Awaken Quotes

“Først når vi døde våkner, ser vi det uopprettelige, nemlig at vi aldri har levet.”
― IBSEN HENRIK, When We Dead Awaken

“Not in that sense. What I need is the companionship of another person who can, as it were, complete me—supply what is wanting in me—be one with me in all my striving. MAIA.”
― Henrik Ibsen, When We Dead Awaken

“PROFESSOR RUBEK. Well, they are trifles, perhaps; but at any rate the time passes for us in that way as well as another, Maia.”
― Henrik Ibsen, When We Dead Awaken

“[Touching his own breast.] In here, you see—in here I have a little bramah-locked casket. And in that casket all my sculptor's visions are stored up. But when she disappeared and left no trace, the lock of the casket snapped to. And she had the key—and she took it away with her.—You, little Maia, you had no key; so all that the casket contains must lie unused. And the years pass! And I have no means of getting at the treasure.”
― Henrik Ibsen, When We Dead Awaken

“[Suddenly letting slip the train of thought.] Do you know, the people down at the hotel think she's mad. PROFESSOR RUBEK. Indeed? And pray what do the people down at the hotel think of you and the bear-killer?”
― Henrik Ibsen, When We Dead Awaken

“MAIA. —all the glory of the world? Yes, you did. And all that glory should be mine, you said.”
― Henrik Ibsen, When We Dead Awaken

“I have come to realise that I am not at all adapted for seeking happiness in indolent enjoyment.”
― Henrik Ibsen, When We Dead Awaken

“Yes, is not life in sunshine and in beauty a hundred times better worth while than to hang about to the end of your days in a raw, damp hole, and wear yourself out in a perpetual struggle with lumps of clay and blocks of stone?”
― Henrik Ibsen, When We Dead Awaken

“Jeg merket det ble så lydløst ved alle de små stasjonene. Jeg hørte lydløsheten og forstod at nå var vi kommet over grensen. Nå var vi riktig hjemme.”
― Henrik Ibsen, When We Dead Awaken