Henrik Ibsen

The great thing is to find your true self, and to lose yourself in that.

What is life? A dream, a delusion, a shadow, a fiction, and the greatest good is small; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

The true man is not afraid to be alone.

Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have the excellent native word 'lies.'

If you want to be happy, be.

Take away the life-lie from the average man and you take away his happiness.

The ideal is the most dangerous of all things, because it is the most beautiful.

I have never written a play to further a social purpose.

I have always been a poet, not a moralist.

The minority is always right.

The majority is never right.

The individual is the only one who can be right.

The most dangerous of all lies is the one we tell ourselves.

The past is not dead; it is not even past.

People don't do such things.

Oh, if you only knew how I have tried to make my way in the world!

I have no talent for life.

One must live for oneself, and not for others.

The vine-leaves in his hair—that's what I dream of.

I only ask for one thing: to be allowed to live my life in my own way.