Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsenwas a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, The Master Builder and John Gabriel Borkman. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth20 March 1828
CitySkien, Norway
CountryNorway
Henrik Ibsen quotes about
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?
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.
The devil is compromise.