Henrik Ibsen

I am not made for happiness.

I have no faith in the future.

The only thing I am afraid of is that I shall never be able to live up to my own expectations.

The world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

The minority is always right, because the minority is always the one that is going to be right in the end.

The most dangerous lie is the one we tell ourselves.

I have never been able to understand why people are so afraid of the truth.

The only thing that matters is to be true to oneself.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

I have been more fierce and more bitter than ever I was in my best days. But do you know, gentlemen, what I have been thinking? I have been thinking that it is the duty of a man who wants to be a poet to be a fool.

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

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

Take the action that's least expected and probable and proceed almost lightly.

The great secret of a powerful life is to be able to control one's own destiny.

Helmer: First and foremost, you are a wife and mother. Nora: That I don't believe any more. I believe that first and foremost I am an individual.

Our house has never been anything 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 my surroundings; so that I am not merely an echo of others.

People who don't know how to keep their mouths shut inevitably spill the beans.

The spectacles of physicians are often more fitted for the shop window than for the human eye.