Henrik Ibsen Quotes (61 Quotes)

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness.

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

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.

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

Take the saving lie from the average man and you take his happiness away, too.

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

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintance, but not friends servants, but not loyalty days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

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

Always do that, wild duck. Stick at the bottom. Deep as they can get. . . . And so they never come up again.