In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances..

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer..

Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.".

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to..

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution..

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul..

What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick..

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for..

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through..

Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of th….

I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!.

What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. A….

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence..

So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us….

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad..

Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights..

If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most….

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness..

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing..

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will..