Henrik Ibsen

A thousand words don't leave the same deep impression as a single deed.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

I must try to find out who is right, society or I.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

You see, there are some people who have such a passion for being in the right that they'd rather be in the right than be happy.

I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are—or at all events, that I must try to become one.

I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.

Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child.

I must stand quite alone if I am to understand myself and everything about me. That is why I cannot stay with you.

There is no man who sacrifices his integrity for the one he loves.

The great task of our time is to make the individual soul free and independent.

I have another duty equally sacred. It is my duty to myself.

When we dead awaken, we find that we have never lived.

To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul, to write is to sit in judgment on oneself.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom—these are the pillars of society.

It is not by what we have, but by what we are, that we are judged.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you are lost.

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

To be oneself is to slay oneself.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.