Hedda Gabler Quotes

“It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler

“It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler

“Good god, people don't do such things!”
― Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler

“Oh, what curse is it that makes everything I touch turn ludicrous and mean?”
― Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler

“Do think it quite incomprehensible that a young girl—when it can be done—without any one knowing—should be glad to have a peep, now and then, into a world which—which she is forbidden to know anything about?”
― Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler

“I can see him already—with vine-leaves in his hair—flushed and fearless.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler

“I am burning—I am burning your child.”
― Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler

“Eljert Lovborg...listen to me...couldn't you let it happen beautifully?”
― Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler