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
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney ...
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
A friend married is a friend lost.
To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind