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Henrik Ibsen Quote: “SIGURD. Man’s will can do this and that; but fate rules in the deeds that shape our lives – so has it gone with us twain.”

151. “SIGURD. Man’s will can do this and that; but fate rules in the deeds that shape our lives – so has it gone with us twain.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “That is the accursed thing about small surroundings – they make the soul small.”

152. “That is the accursed thing about small surroundings – they make the soul small.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “PROFESSOR RUBEK. Well, they are trifles, perhaps; but at any rate the time passes for us in that way as well as another, Maia.”

153. “PROFESSOR RUBEK. Well, they are trifles, perhaps; but at any rate the time passes for us in that way as well as another, Maia.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “HIORDIS. Better no child, than one born in shame. DAGNY. In shame?”

154. “HIORDIS. Better no child, than one born in shame. DAGNY. In shame?”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “When I lost you, it was as if all the solid ground went from under my feet. Look at me now – I am a shipwrecked man clinging to a bit of wreckage.”

155. “When I lost you, it was as if all the solid ground went from under my feet. Look at me now – I am a shipwrecked man clinging to a bit of wreckage.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “Oh, we are all of us run over, sometime or other in life. The thing is to jump up again, and let no one see you are hurt.”

156. “Oh, we are all of us run over, sometime or other in life. The thing is to jump up again, and let no one see you are hurt.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “You possibly believe I keep the glue Of lies for Happiness’s in a broken jar?”

157. “You possibly believe I keep the glue Of lies for Happiness’s in a broken jar?”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “To “those about to marry,” Ibsen therefore says in effect, “Be sure you are not in love!” And to those who are in love he says, “Part!”

158. “To “those about to marry,” Ibsen therefore says in effect, “Be sure you are not in love!” And to those who are in love he says, “Part!”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?”

159. “Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “Let others emulate the eagle’s flight, Life in the lowly plains may be as bright.”

160. “Let others emulate the eagle’s flight, Life in the lowly plains may be as bright.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “Both agree in repudiating “marriage for love”; but the idealist repudiates it in the name of love, the critic in the name of marriage. Love, for the idealist Ibsen, is a passion which loses its virtue when it reaches its goal, which inspires only while it aspires, and flags bewildered when it attains. Marriage, for the critic Ibsen, is an institution beset with pitfalls into which those are surest to step who enter it blinded with love.”

161. “Both agree in repudiating “marriage for love”; but the idealist repudiates it in the name of love, the critic in the name of marriage. Love, for the idealist Ibsen, is a passion which loses its virtue when it reaches its goal, which inspires only while it aspires, and flags bewildered when it attains. Marriage, for the critic Ibsen, is an institution beset with pitfalls into which those are surest to step who enter it blinded with love.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “It is the small losses in life that cut one to the heart.”

162. “It is the small losses in life that cut one to the heart.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “The White God is coming northward; him will I not meet; the old gods are strong no longer; – they sleep, they sit half shadow- high; – with them will we strive!”

163. “The White God is coming northward; him will I not meet; the old gods are strong no longer; – they sleep, they sit half shadow- high; – with them will we strive!”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “But if you are to die, live first! Come forth With me into the glory of God’s earth! Soon, soon the gilded cage will claim its prize. The Lady thrives there, but the Woman dies, And I love nothing but the Woman in you.”

164. “But if you are to die, live first! Come forth With me into the glory of God’s earth! Soon, soon the gilded cage will claim its prize. The Lady thrives there, but the Woman dies, And I love nothing but the Woman in you.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “About the white and shining milky way? Man may not there the milk of fortune skim, Nor is the butter of it meant for him.”

165. “About the white and shining milky way? Man may not there the milk of fortune skim, Nor is the butter of it meant for him.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “ALLMERS. No. For it is here, in the life of earth, that we living beings are at home.”

166. “ALLMERS. No. For it is here, in the life of earth, that we living beings are at home.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “Not in that sense. What I need is the companionship of another person who can, as it were, complete me – supply what is wanting in me – be one with me in all my striving. MAIA.”

167. “Not in that sense. What I need is the companionship of another person who can, as it were, complete me – supply what is wanting in me – be one with me in all my striving. MAIA.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “Frida. So after all, it is not for nothing that I was born a poet. For now she is going forth into the great wide world, that I once yearned so passionately to see. Little Frida sets out in a splendid covered sledge with silver bells on the harness – –.”

168. “Frida. So after all, it is not for nothing that I was born a poet. For now she is going forth into the great wide world, that I once yearned so passionately to see. Little Frida sets out in a splendid covered sledge with silver bells on the harness – –.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “You must not think, Mrs. Borkman, that I haven’t said the same to him. I have laid my whole life before him. Again and again I have reminded him that I am seven years older than he – –.”

169. “You must not think, Mrs. Borkman, that I haven’t said the same to him. I have laid my whole life before him. Again and again I have reminded him that I am seven years older than he – –.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “I can see him already – with vine-leaves in his hair – flushed and fearless.”

170. “I can see him already – with vine-leaves in his hair – flushed and fearless.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “What right have we human beings to happiness?”

171. “What right have we human beings to happiness?”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “People so easily forget their past selves.”

172. “People so easily forget their past selves.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “No, it is the small losses in life that cut one to the heart – the loss of all that other people look upon as almost nothing.”

173. “No, it is the small losses in life that cut one to the heart – the loss of all that other people look upon as almost nothing.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “I have had a delightfully lonely time of it – plenty of leisure to think and think about things.”

174. “I have had a delightfully lonely time of it – plenty of leisure to think and think about things.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “That all this I have to make up for, to pay for – not in money, but in human happiness. And not with my own happiness only, but with other people’s too.”

175. “That all this I have to make up for, to pay for – not in money, but in human happiness. And not with my own happiness only, but with other people’s too.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “EINAR HUK. Then we shall be free. We shall have no more foreign masters, and can choose ourselves a king, as the Swedes have done before us.”

176. “EINAR HUK. Then we shall be free. We shall have no more foreign masters, and can choose ourselves a king, as the Swedes have done before us.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.”

177. “There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.”

— Henrik Ibsen

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