Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.

- Henrik Ibsen

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

- Henrik Ibsen

A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.

- Henrik Ibsen

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

- Henrik Ibsen

Each bird must sing with his own throat.

- Henrik Ibsen

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

- Henrik Ibsen

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

- Henrik Ibsen

The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the day…

- Henrik Ibsen

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

- Henrik Ibsen