Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen Quotes

“A woman cannot be herself in modern society,” he argues, since it is “an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen

“EINAR HUK. Then we shall be free. We shall have no more foreign masters, and can choose ourselves a king, as the Swedes have done before us.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen

“CATILINE. [To himself.] Midnight approaches. Everything is hushed; — Only to my poor eyes sleep fails to come. Cold is the night wind; ‘twill refresh my soul And give me strength anew — . I sorely need it!”
― Henrik Ibsen, Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen

“I have had a delightfully lonely time of it — plenty of leisure to think and think about things.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen

“All things I will uproot from out my soul
That bind me to my life of empty dreams!
All that is of the past shall henceforth be
As if ‘twere not”
― Henrik Ibsen, Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen

“BÅRD BRATTE.
Now the Wolf-skins are fighting for the bear-fell. PAUL FLIDA.
And they have yet to fell the bear. [All go out by the back.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen

“Örnulf. No, I say! I must fight my own battle, be my fortune what it may.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen

“that you do your best to advance young CountSture’s ancestral claim to the throne of Sweden.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen

“As will be seen from my book, I did not share at that time the conception of the two ancient Roman writers respecting the character and conduct of Catiline, and I am even now prone to believe that there must after all have been something great and consequential in a man whom Cicero, the assiduous counsel of the majority, did not find it expedient to engage until affairs had taken such a turn that there was no longer any danger involved in the attack. It should also be remembered that there are few individuals in history whose renown has been more completely in the hands of enemies than that of Catiline.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen