Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

I am afraid, Torvald, I do not exactly know what religion is. ... When I am away from all this, and am alone, I will look into that matter too. I will see if what the clergyman said is true, or at all events if it is true for me.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

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

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Yes you may depend upon it he has the ability! He is the younger generation that stands ready to knock at my door - to make an end of Halvard Solness.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.